---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 C.F.R. § 439.52"
title: "9"
number: "439.52"
heading: "Suspension of accreditation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/439.52"
---

# §439.52. Suspension of accreditation.


A laboratory will be suspended from the program if probation status is not rectified according to program requirements stated in this part. The accreditation of a laboratory will be immediately suspended if the laboratory or any individual or entity responsibly connected with the laboratory is indicted or has charges on information brought against them in a Federal or State court for any of the following violations of law. A laboratory must notify the ALP within 30 calendar days if any of these situations occur.

- (a) **Any felony.**
- (b) Any misdemeanor based upon acquiring, handling, or distributing of unwholesome, misbranded, or deceptively packaged food or upon fraud in connection with transactions in food.
- (c) **Any misdemeanor based upon a false statement to any governmental agency.**
- (d) **Any misdemeanor based upon the offering, giving or receiving of a bribe or unlawful gratuity.**
- (e) Altering any official sample or analytical finding; or substituting any analytical result from any other laboratory and representing the result as its own.

## Notes

### Authority

AUTHORITY: 7 U.S.C. 138f, 450, 1901-1906, 1622(o); 21 U.S.C. 451-470, 601-695; 7 CFR 2.18, 2.53.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 51864, Aug. 24, 2022, unless otherwise noted.