Section 5850 Of Article 7.5. Quality Certification Services From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 4. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 7.5.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Enhancing global business and trade is in the economic
interest of the state.
(b) Domestic and foreign country quarantine and product quality
requirements must be met to allow for the trade of many agricultural
products.
(c) Currently, to be acceptable to other states and foreign
governments, phytosanitary and product quality certification and
supporting analyses, diagnostics, and other testing of that type must
be performed by an impartial, third-party governmental agency.
(d) As a result of its regulatory responsibilities, the department
has the technical capacity and expertise to meet current domestic
and foreign government requirements for impartial, third-party
governmental analytical, certification, diagnostic, inspection,
quality assurance, and testing services and, as accreditation becomes
acceptable to states and foreign governments, to accredit private
entities to perform these kinds of services.
(e) Nonregulatory activities are services for which the entities
that receive the benefits should pay the costs. However, the
department is not authorized or funded to establish a program to
perform nonregulatory accreditation, analytical, certification,
diagnostic, inspection, quality assurance, or testing work, nor is it
authorized to establish a schedule of charges to recover its costs
for those services.