California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 3 - Economics
Chapter 1 - Fruit and Vegetable Standardization
Subchapter 10 - Raw Products Inspection for Processing Analysis Different
Article 1 - Inspection of Grapes for Wine and By-Products
Section 1662 - Certification

(a) A certificate of inspection or a combination of the inspection and weight certificates shall be issued for each lot or load inspected. Each certificate shall provide all information relevant to the inspection.

(b) The certificate shall bear the statement that inspection and certification have been conducted under authority of Division 16, Chapter 3, of the Food and Agricultural Code of California, and shall provide space for the authorized inspector to sign the certificate.

(c) When applicable, and on completion of inspection of the required number of samples, the following shall be reported on the certificate as the true results of the inspection by the Director.

(d) Soluble solids test shall be reported as Brix percentage on the certificate.

(e) Material other than grapes and hand sorted defects shall be weighed and may be reported in ounces, pounds per ton, and/or percentage.

(f) The results of inspections for defects determined by an approved immunoassay procedure shall be reported in a manner approved by the Director.

(g) Each certificate shall bear the name of the agency issuing the certificate and shall be numbered serially.

(h) Each inspection certificate shall provide the name of the grower or growers and shall bear the date, time, weight certificate number, and the license numbers (when applicable), and the total number of samples, including retests or regrades.

(i) The original or duplicate original of the certificate shall be retained by the Director or county agricultural commissioner. Each certificate copy shall be a duplicate original.

(j) A certificate or duplicate original shall be invalid if it has been altered in any way, unless the alteration is initialed by an authorized inspector. Any alterations, properly initialed, shall be made on the original and on all duplicate originals of the certificate.

(k) The official inspection certificate may be combined with the official weight certificate used by the winery, provided the combined form is approved by the Director or county agricultural commissioner.