[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: 7CFR982.46]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 982_HAZELNUTS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  982.46  Inspection and certification.

    (a) Before or upon handling any hazelnuts, or before any inshell or 
shelled hazelnuts are credited (under Sec. Sec.  982.50 or 982.51) in 
satisfaction of a restricted obligation, each handler shall, at his own 
expense, cause such hazelnuts to be inspected and certified by the 
Federal-State Inspection Service as meeting the then effective grade and 
size regulations or, if inshell or shelled hazelnuts are withheld under 
Sec.  982.51, the applicable requirements specified in that section. The 
handler obtaining such inspection of hazelnuts shall cause a copy of the 
certificate issued by such inspection service applicable to such 
hazelnuts to be furnished to the Board.
    (b) All hazelnuts so inspected and certified shall be identified as 
prescribed by the Board. Such identification shall be affixed to the 
hazelnut containers by the handler under direction and supervision of 
the Board or the Federal-State Inspection Service, and shall not be 
removed or altered by any person except as directed by the Board.
    (c) Whenever the Board determines that the length of time in storage 
and conditions of storage of any lot of certified merchantable hazelnuts 
have been or are such as to normally cause

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deterioration, it may require that such lot of hazelnuts be reinspected 
at the handler's expense prior to handling.

[40 FR 53227, Nov. 17, 1975, as amended at 61 FR 17560, Apr. 22, 1996]

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