[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: 7CFR996]

[Page 720]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 996_MINIMUM QUALITY AND HANDLING STANDARDS FOR DOMESTIC AND 
 
Sec.  996.4  Handle.

    Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and 
shelling, cleaning inshell, or crushing of domestic or imported peanuts 
and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts 
owned by another) or sale of cleaned-inshell or shelled peanuts or other 
activity causing peanuts to enter into human consumption channels of 
commerce: Provided, That this term does not include sales or deliveries 
of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person 
engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s): And provided further, That 
this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such 
intermediary person(s) to a handler.