Regulations last checked for updates: Aug 03, 2025

Title 7 - Agriculture last revised: Jul 29, 2025
§ 51.2658 - Permanent defects.

Permanent defects means defects which are not subject to change during shipping or storage; including, but not limited to factors of shape, scarring, skin breaks, injury caused by hail or insects, and mechanical injury which is so located as to indicate that it occurred prior to shipment.

authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627.
cite as: 7 CFR 51.2658