Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Definition of Terms. As used in this Act, the following terms shall have the following definition:

(a) Accreditation refers to the procedure by which a government agency having jurisdiction formally attests to the competence of an inspection and/or certification body to provide inspection and certification services;

(b) Certification refers to third party attestation of conformance to standards and guidelines related to products, processes, systems or persons;

(c) Halal refers to lawful or permissible under Shariah (Islamic Law);

(d) Processes refer to a set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs to outputs;

(e) Products refer to food and nonfood items produced by human or mechanical effort, or by a natural process, or a combination thereof, and marketed or sold as a commodity;

(f) Recognition refers to the acknowledgment of the validity of a conformity assessment result provided by a person or body; and

(g) Services refer to an intangible result of at least one (1) activity performed by a supplier or provider for a customer.