California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 4 - Plant Industry
Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Subchapter 2 - Nursery Stock
Article 10 - Nursery Stock Nematode Certification
Section 3055.1 - Definitions

(a) "Approved treatment" means any soil preparation, treatment, and post-treatment recontamination preventative measures that are approved, documented, and supervised by the Department as a means of producing nursery stock free of nematodes.

(b) "Soil" includes, but is not limited to, what is generally known as soil, mixtures of soil and horticultural soil amendments, and horticultural soil amendments alone, as blends, or as mixtures, used as a plant growing medium.

(c) "Approved laboratory methods" means any soil sampling plans; growing plot or sample identification methods; sample protection, transportation, and processing methods; nematode extraction methods; and nematode diagnostic procedures approved by the Department to test soil and plants for the presence of nematodes.

(d) "Free of nematodes" means free of nematodes consistent with the capacity of the approved treatment and approved laboratory methods prescribed in this article respectively to yield nursery stock free of nematodes or to detect low level nursery stock nematode infestations. It does not mean complete freedom and nematodes may be present consistent with the limitations inherent to the prescribed approved treatment and approved laboratory methods.

(e) "Nematode" means nematode species that the Department determines to be economically important.

(f) "Participant" means any person for whom the Department has approved an application for nursery stock nematode certification.

(g) "Program" means the nursery stock nematode certification program administered by the Department pursuant to these regulations.

(h) "Department" means the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and its agents, employees, or representatives.