Regulations last checked for updates: May 01, 2025

Title 7 - Agriculture last revised: Apr 24, 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