[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR917.6]

[Page 122]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 917_FRESH PEARS AND PEACHES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  917.6  Handle.

    Handle and ship are synonymous and mean to sell, consign, deliver or 
transport fruit or to cause fruit to be sold, consigned, delivered or 
transported between the production area and any point outside thereof, 
or within the production area: Provided, That for peaches, packing or 
causing the fruit to be packed also constitutes handling; Provided 
further, That the term handle shall not include the sale of fruit on the 
tree, the transportation within the production area of fruit from the 
orchard where grown to a packing facility located within such area for 
preparation for market, or the delivery of such fruit to such packing 
facility for such preparation.

[71 FR 41351, July 21, 2006]