7 CFR § 983.14 - Handle.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s983.14"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 983.14 - Handle."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "983.14"
section_name: "Handle."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; FRUITS, VEGETABLES, NUTS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
part_number: "983"
part_name: "PISTACHIOS GROWN IN CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEW MEXICO"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 601-674."
regulatory_source: "69 FR 17850, Apr. 4, 2004, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "983"
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# 983.14 Handle.

*Handle* means to engage in:

(a) Receiving pistachios;

(b) Hulling and drying pistachios;

(c) Further preparing pistachios by sorting, sizing, shelling, roasting, cleaning, salting, and/or packaging for marketing in or transporting to any and all markets in the current of interstate or foreign commerce; and/or

(d) Placing pistachios into the current of commerce from within the production area to points outside thereof: *Provided,* however, that transportation within the production area between handlers and from the orchard to the processing facility is not handling.