Glossary
Agricultural Inspector Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential agricultural inspector terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key agricultural inspector vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in agricultural inspector training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Adulterated
- Food that is unsafe or contaminated.
- APHIS
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
- Carcass inspection
- Examining animals after slaughter.
- Chain of custody
- Tracking sample handling.
- Critical control point
- A step where hazards are controlled.
- FSIS
- USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service.
- Grade standard
- Criteria for quality grades.
- HACCP
- A system that controls food safety hazards.
- Misbranded
- Food with false or misleading labels.
- Noncompliance record
- Documentation of a violation.
- Phytosanitary certificate
- Certification that plants are pest-free.
- Port of entry
- Where imports enter the country.
- Quarantine pest
- A regulated pest.
- Residue testing
- Testing for pesticide residues.
- Sanitation SOP
- Standard sanitation procedures.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Agricultural Inspector practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Agricultural Inspector training.
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