---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1223.7"
title: "7"
number: "1223.7"
heading: "First handler."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1223.7"
---

# §1223.7. First handler.


First handler means any person who receives, shells, cracks, accumulates, warehouses, roasts, packs, sells, consigns, transports, exports, or ships (except as a common or contract carrier of pecans owned by another person), or in any other way puts inshell or shelled pecans in the stream of commerce. The term first handler includes a producer who handles or markets pecans of the producer's own production.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7411-7425; 7 U.S.C. 7401.

### Source

Source: 86 FR 2898, Jan. 13, 2021, unless otherwise noted.