29 CFR § 784.148 - General scope of processing, freezing, and curing activities.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t29/s784.148"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "29 CFR § 784.148 - General scope of processing, freezing, and curing activities."
title_number: 29
title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "784.148"
section_name: "General scope of processing, freezing, and curing activities."
chapter_name: "WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "STATEMENTS OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO REGULATIONS"
part_number: "784"
part_name: "PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT APPLICABLE TO FISHING AND OPERATIONS ON AQUATIC PRODUCTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended, 75 Stat. 65; 29 U.S.C. 201-219."
regulatory_source: "35 FR 13342, Aug. 20, 1970, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "784"
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# 784.148 General scope of processing, freezing, and curing activities.
Processing, freezing, and curing embrace a variety of operations that change the form of the “aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life.” They include such operations as filleting, cutting, scaling, salting, smoking, drying, pickling, curing, freezing, extracting oil, manufacturing meal or fertilizer, drying seaweed preparatory to the manufacture of agar, drying and cleaning sponges (*Feming* v. *Hawkeye Pearl Button Co.,* 113 F. 2d 52).