7 CFR 983.14
§ 983.14 Handle.
United States · 7 CFR — Agriculture · Status: effective
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- 7 CFR 983.14, § 983.14 Handle, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/22274
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Full text
Handle means to engage in:
(a) Receiving pistachios;
(b) Hulling and drying pistachios;
(c) Further preparing pistachios by sorting, sizing, shelling, roasting, cleaning, salting, and/or packaging for marketing in or transporting to any and all markets in the current of interstate or foreign commerce; and/or
(d) Placing pistachios into the current of commerce from within the production area to points outside thereof: Provided, however, that transportation within the production area between handlers and from the orchard to the processing facility is not handling.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.