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title: "21 CFR §1.83"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-1.83"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "1"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "A"

subchapter_subject: "GENERAL"

part_code: "1"

part_subject: "GENERAL ENFORCEMENT REGULATIONS"

subpart_code: "E"

subpart_subject: "Imports and Exports"

section_number: "1.83"

section_subject: "Definitions."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 1.83"

title_name: "Title 21"

title_subject: "Food and Drugs"

parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 99"

revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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For the purposes of regulations prescribed under section 801(a), (b), and (c) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:

(a)The term owner or consignee means the person who makes entry under the provisions of section 484 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1484), namely, the “importer of record.”

(b)The term district director means the director of the district of the Food and Drug Administration having jurisdiction over the port of entry through which an article is imported or offered for import, or such officer of the district as he may designate to act in his behalf in administering and enforcing the provisions of section 801 (a), (b), and (c).

§1.83 - Definitions.