[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: 7CFR989.15]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 989_RAISINS PRODUCED FROM GRAPES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table 
of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 989.15  Handler.

    Handler means: (a) Any processor or packer; (b) any person who 
places, ships, or continues natural condition raisins in the current of 
commerce

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from within the area to any point outside thereof; (c) any person who 
delivers off-grade raisins, other failing raisins or raisin residual 
material to other than a packer or other than into any eligible non-
normal outlet; or (d) any person who blends raisins: Provided, That 
blending shall not cause a person not otherwise a handler to be a 
handler on account of such blending if he is either: (1) A producer who, 
in his capacity as a producer, blends raisins entirely of his own 
production in the course of his usual and customary practices of 
preparing raisins for delivery to processors, packers, or dehydrators; 
(2) a person who blends raisins after they have been placed in trade 
channels by a packer with other such raisins in trade channels; or (3) a 
dehydrator who, in his capacity as a dehydrator, blends raisins entirely 
of his own manufacture.

[37 FR 19622, Sept. 21, 1972]