Regulations last checked for updates: May 17, 2024

Title 7 - Agriculture last revised: Nov 16, 2024
§ 996.4 - Handle.

Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning inshell, or crushing of domestic or imported peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned-inshell or shelled peanuts or other activity causing peanuts to enter into human consumption channels of commerce: Provided, That this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s): And provided further, That this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.

authority: 7 U.S.C. 7958.
source: 67 FR 57140, Sept. 9, 2002, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 7 CFR 996.4