§958.53. Handling for specified purposes. — Inbound Citations

The committee shall recommend regulations to the Secretary whenever it finds that such regulations as provided in § 958.52 will tend to effectuate the declared policy of the act. The committee also may recommend modification, suspension, or termination of any regulation, or amendments thereto, in order to facilitate the handling of onions for the purposes authorized in § 958.53. The committee may also recommend amendment, modification, termination, or suspension of any regulation issued under this part.

The committee, with the approval of the Secretary, may establish minimum quantities below which onion shipments will be free from the requirements in, or pursuant to, §§ 958.42, 958.52, 958.53, 958.60, or any combination thereof.

(1) Pursuant to § 958.53 or § 958.54; or

(a) During any period in which shipments of onions are regulated pursuant to this subpart, no handler shall handle onions unless such onions are inspected by an authorized representative of the Federal-State Inspection Service, or such other inspection service as the Secretary shall designate and are covered by a valid inspection certificate, except when relieved from such requirements pursuant to § 958.53, § 958.54, or both.

(4) identification of the inspection certificates relating to the onions which were handled pursuant to §§ 958.53 and 958.54.