2000 Minnesota Statutes

     17B.03 Grain weighing, sampling, analysis; laboratory 
  evaluation. 

    Subdivision 1.    Commissioner's powers.  The 
 commissioner of agriculture shall exercise general supervision 
 over the inspection, grading, weighing, sampling, and analysis 
 of grain within the state of Minnesota subject to the provisions 
 of the United States Grain Standards Act of 1976 and the rules 
 promulgated thereunder by the United States Department of 
 Agriculture. 

    Subd. 2.    Samples.  The commissioner also may accept 
 upon request samples drawn by and certified to by contracting 
 parties for inspection, analysis and grading by state laboratory 
 personnel. 

    Subd. 3.    Laboratories.  The commissioner may 
 establish a procedure to be used in evaluating grain testing 
 laboratories and their laboratory procedures and methodology to 
 the end that such laboratory procedures and methodology may be 
 uniform with state procedures and methodology. 

    HIST: 1974 c 548 s 3; 1978 c 610 s 1