[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: 7CFR927.60]

[Page 223]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 927_PEARS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  927.60  Inspection and certification.

    (a) Handlers shall ship only fresh pears inspected by the Federal-
State Inspection Service or under a program developed by the Federal-
State Inspection Service: except, that such inspection and certification 
of shipments of pears may be performed by such other inspection service 
as the Fresh Pear Committee, with the approval of the Secretary, may 
designate. Promptly after shipment of any pears, the handler shall 
submit, or cause to be submitted, to the Fresh Pear Committee a copy of 
the inspection certificate issued on such shipment.
    (b) Any handler may ship pears, on any one conveyance and in such 
quantity as the committee, with the approval of the Secretary, may 
prescribe, exempt from the inspection and certification requirements of 
paragraph (a) of this section.
    (c) The Fresh Pear Committee may, with the approval of the 
Secretary, prescribe rules and regulations modifying or eliminating the 
requirement for mandatory inspection and certification of shipments: 
Provided, That an adequate method of ensuring compliance with quality 
and size requirements is developed.

                               Exceptions