USDA FSIS Acronyms, Abbreviations, Symbols & Marks of Inspection

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United States Department of Agriculture
F S I S
OOD AFETY AND NSPECTION ERVICE
Acronyms, Abbreviations,
Symbols & Marks of Inspection

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A A
CRONYMS & BBREVIATIONS

AA

Accounting (forms); Animal [food] (establishment type); Appeal [to District
A
Manager] (Administrative Enforcement Reports/Reporting system)
AA Affirmative Action; Associate Administrator
AAA Animal Agriculture Alliance
AAAP American Association of Avian Pathologists
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAB Applied Analysis Branch
AAD Associate Area Director
AAO Area Administrative Officer
AAR Acquisition Approval Request
AAS Acquisitions and Agreements Section; Annual Assurance Statement
American Association of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
AASD
Directors
ABB State Agricultural Offices (mailing distribution code)
ABCO Administrative Billings and COllections (see, COD)
ABFO Area Budget and Fiscal Officer
AC Alternating Current; Administrator’s Council; [Information System] Access Control
A/C Accounting Code
Acceptance [number] (maximum number of defects permitted in a sample for
Ac
lot to meet an Acceptable Quality Limit)
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ACA Affordable Care Act
AC-BMP Animal Care-Best Management Practices
ACE Automated Commercial Environment [database]
ACGIH American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, [Incorporated]
ACH Automated Clearing House
ACIA Agence Canadienne d'Inspection des Aliments (see, CFIA)
ACIO Associate Chief Information Officer
ACS Agricultural Cooperative Service; Area Computer Specialist
Acti Actinomycosis
AD Agriculture Department (forms); Area Director
ADA Associate Deputy Administrator; Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
ADAA Animal Drug Availability Act
ADAAA Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act
ADB Analytic Design Branch
ADAAM Associate Deputy Administrator, Administrative Management
ADDB Application and Design Development Branch
ADDM Administrative Development and Data Management
ADEA Age Discrimination in Employment Act
ADI Acceptable Daily Intake
ADM Acting District Manager
ADO Authorized Departmental Officer; Alleged Discriminating Official
ADODR Authorized Departmental Officer’s Designated Representative
ADP Actual Duty Point; Automated Data Processing; Alternative Duty Program
ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution; Animal Disposition Recording [System]

ADRS Animal Disposition Reporting System (database)
ADTL Agency Drug Testing Liaison
AEB Administrative Enforcement Branch
AED Applied Epidemiology Division
AEP Affirmative Employment Program
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AER Administrative Enforcement Reports/Reporting [system]
AES Agricultural Experiment Station
AFCU Agriculture Federal Credit Union
AFDO Association of Food and Drug Officials
AFGE American Federation of Government Employees
AFI Application for Federal Inspection (FSIS Form 5200-2)
AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFM Administrative and Financial Management
AFOA American Fats and Oils Association
AFV Alternative Fuel Vehicle
AGAR AGriculture Acquisition Regulation
AGPMR AGriculture Property Management Regulation
AGRICOLA AGRICultural On-Line Access (USDA database)
AGS Administrative Grievance System
AH Agriculture Handbook
AHERA Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act
AHSA American Humane Society of America
AI Avian Influenza
AIB American Institute of Baking
AID [United States] Agency for International Development
AIIS Automated Import Information System
AIMD Accounting and Information Management Division
AIMS Agreements Information Management System
AISD Automated Information Systems Division
AISI American Iron and Steel Institute
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive [system]
AJ Administrative Judge
A/L Annual Leave
ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable
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ALC Agency Location Code
ALLRTE ALL Ready-To-Eat (sampling)
ALOC Achieved Level of Competency; Acceptable Level Of Competence
ALP Accredited Laboratory Program
AM Ante-Mortem; Administrative Management
AMA Agricultural Marketing Act (1947)
AMC Accident Management Center
AMD Acquisition Management Division
AMDUCA Animal Medication Drug Use Clarification Act
AMI American Meat Institute
AMR Advanced Meat Recovery
AMRS Advanced Meat Recovery Specie[s]
AMS Agricultural Marketing Service
ANPR Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
AO Administrative Officer
A/O Arm Out (IMPS)
AOAC Association of Official Analytical Chemists [International]
AOACI Association of Official Analytical Chemists International
AOCS American Oil Chemists Society
AOD Administrative Operations Division
AOSB Accounting Operations and Systems Branch
avoirdupois [from the French, avoir du poids; weights system based on a pound of
ap
16 ounces]
APA Administrative Procedure Act
APC Agency Program Coordinator; Aerobic Plate Count
APCRD Accounting Policy and Consolidated Reporting Division
APFS Animal Production Food Safety
APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APMB Acquisition and Program Management Branch
APMO Area Property Management Officer
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APO Accountable Property Officer
APPR APPRopriated
APPSW APPlications SoftWare
AQIS Australia Quarantine and Inspection Service
AQL Acceptable Quality Level/Limit
ARD Automatic Release Date
ARF Action Request Form
ARIS Agricultural Research Information System
ARMB Accounts Receivable Management Branch
ARMP Annual Resource Management Plan
ARMPS Annual Resource Management Plan System
ARMS ARS Resource Management System
ARPAS American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists
ARS Agricultural Research Service
ARS-CMU ARS Correspondence Management Unit
ARSITS Agricultural Research Service Invention Tracking System
ARS-LS ARS Legislative Staff
ARSITS Agricultural Research Service Invention Tracking System
ARS-OA Agricultural Research Service-Office of the Administrator
AS Adminstration Section; Area Supervisor
ASA Assistant Secretary for Administration
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASB Accounting Services Branch
ASBD Armed Services Blood Drive
ASBP Armed Services Blood Program
ASC Agency Selection Committee
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Exchange
ASCR Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
ASD Administrative Services Division
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ASDMail Administrative Services Division Mail
ASL American Sign Language
ASO Administrative Services Division
ASOC Agriculture Security Operations Center
ASCR Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
ASD Administrative Services Division
ASE Actual Subsistence Expense
ASHM Area Safety and Health Manager
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ATA Area Travel Assistant
ATAR Agency Technical Assistance Request
ATBC Acetyl TriButyl Citrate
ATM Automated Teller Machine
atm atmosphere[s]
ATP Adenosine TriPhosphate
ATR Agriculture Travel Regulations
ATR/FTR Agriculture Travel Regulations/Federal Travel Regulations
ATS Automated Targeting System (imports)
ATSC Agency Training Steering Committee
ATSC-WG Agency Training Steering Committee-Work Group
ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
AU Atomic Unit[s] (weights and measures)
AUO Area Utilization Officer
AUSA Assistant United States Attorney
avoirdupois [from the French, avoir du poids; weights system based on a pound
av
of 16 ounces]
AVB Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker
avoirdupois [from the French, avoir du poids; weights system based on a pound of
avdp
16 ounces]
AVIC Area Veterinarian-In-Charge
AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association
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AVS Application for Voluntary Reimbursable Services (FSIS Form 5200-6)
a water activity
w
AWA Animal Welfare Approved; Alternative Work Arrangements
AWO Advance Web Ordering (Beltsville Service Center)
AWOL Absence/Absent Without Official Leave
AWS Alternative Work Schedule; Alternate Work Site
BB
B Boning (establishment type)
B. Bacillus
B49PARTS Raw Chicken Parts Baseline Survey [sampling code]
BA Beltsville Area
BAD Business Application Division
BARC Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
BARD Binational Agricultural Research and Development
BB BlackBerry®
BCA Board of Contract Appeals
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BD Budget Division
BECB Budget Execution and Control Branch
BEI Biological Exposure Index; Behavioral Event Interview
BEV Beef Export Verification [program]
B&F Budget and Fiscal
BFSB Budget and Fiscal Services Branch (see, FMD)
BHA Butylated HydroxyAnisole (antioxidant)
BHT Butylated HydroxyToluene (antioxidant)
BIB Business Intelligence Branch
BITES Biological Information Transfer E-mail System
BLBT Boneless Lean Beef Tissue
Bld Blade (IMPS)
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Bldls Bladeless (IMPS)
BLEVE Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion
BLM Bureau of Land Management
BMC private sector software maintenance company
BMP Best Management Practices
Bn-in Bone-in (IMPS)
Bnls Boneless (IMPS)
BOAC Billed Office Address Code
BOC Budget Object Class
BOCC Budget Object Classification Code
BOD Biological Oxygen Demand
BOL Bill Of Lading
BP Boiling Point
BPA Blanket Purchase Agreement
BPD [Butterfield’s] Buffered Phosphate Dilutant (sampling)
BPIP Building Profile Input Program
BPM Birds Per Minute (line speed)
Budget and Performance Management System; Budget and Program
BPMS
Management Staff
BPW Buffered Peptone Water
B/R Block Ready
BRM Business Reply Mail
BRT Boned, Rolled, Tied/Netted
BSC Beltsville Service Center
BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BSO Biological Safety Officer
BSL- BioSecurity Level-
BST Basic Supervisor Training
Btu British thermal unit
BU Bargaining Unit
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bx box (Beltsville Service Center Advanced Web Ordering)
CC

Ceiling [limit] (MSDS); [request to withdraw] Custom [exemption] (AER
C
report type)
C. Chlamydia; Campylobacter; Cysticercus; Clostridium
maximum number of positive test results permitted (sampling performance
c standard); confirmation (sampling); centi- [1/100]; about/approximately
[from the Latin, circa]
Canada (import/export); Corrective Action; Circular A (forms); Commercial
CA
Activities; Cooperative Agreement
C&A Certification and Accreditation
C/A Citric Acid (eggs)
ca. about/approximately [from the Latin, circa]
CAA Clean Air Act
CAC Codex Alimentarius Commission
CAD Contracting and Assistance Division
CAK Controlled Atmosphere Killing (slaughter)
CAFO Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
CAN Common Agreement Number
Controlled Atmosphere Packaging; Computer/Electronic Accommodations
CAP
Program [of the Department of Defense]
CAPPS Committee for Agriculture Payroll/Personnel Systems
CAR CARcinogenic
CARC CARCinogenic
Chemical Abstracts Service (MSDS); Controlled Atmosphere Stunning;
CAS
Cooperative Agreement Specialist; Central Accounting System
CASSB Classification And Staffing Services Branch
CAST Calf Antimicrobial Swab Test (residue test)
CAT Crisis Action Team
CATS Current Research Information System Allocation Tracking System
CAWL Calvert Animal Welfare League
Collective Bargaining Agreement; Congressional Budget Act; Centrally
CBA
Billed Account
CBCA Civilian Board of Contract Appeals
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CBP [U.S.] Customs and Border Protection
CBT Computer-Based Training
CC Carbon Copy; Common Carrier; Certificate of Conformance
CCC Commodity Credit Corporation
CCB Configuration Control Board
CCMS Consumer Complaint Monitoring System
CCO Correspondence Control Officer
CCP Critical Control Point
CCPB Compensation and Classification Policy Branch
CCPFV Codex Committee on Processed Fruits and Vegetables
CCPO Climate Change Program Office
CCR Central Contractor Registration
CCRVDF Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods
CE Custom Exempt
CD Compact Disc; Canadian Dollar[s]; Center Director
CDC Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention]
CDL Commercial Drivers License
CD-ROM Compact Disk—Read Only Memory
CDSD Communiations and Data Services Division
CDSO Collateral Duty Safety Officer
CDW Collision Damage Waiver (travel)
CE Custom Exempt (slaughter)
CEB Criminal Enforcement Branch
CEDL Continuing Education Distance Learning
CENS Computer Emergency Notification Systems
CEP Continuing Education Program; Career Enhancement Program
CEPD Continuing Education and Professional Development [program]
CEPS Cluster Environmental Protection Specialist
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
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