[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR983.14]

[Page 560]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 983_PISTACHIOS GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 983.14  Handle.

    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.