FSIS's legal authority to regulate meat and poultry products is derived from:

• A. Regulations
• B. Notices
• C. Statutes
• D. District Managers

Answer: (C)

The ability of FSIS to regulate meat and poultry products comes from statutes—laws enacted by Congress that establish the agency’s authority and mandate inspections. In the U.S., the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act are the foundational statutes that grant FSIS the power to inspect, regulate, and enforce standards for these products. Regulations are the detailed rules that FSIS develops to implement those statutes, filling in procedures and specific requirements. Notices are informational or procedural announcements that the agency uses, but they don’t create or grant authority themselves. District Managers are frontline personnel who enforce the rules, not the source of the authority. So, the best answer is that authority is derived from statutes.