---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 983.14"
title: "7"
number: "983.14"
heading: "Handle."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/983.14"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 17850, Apr. 4, 2004, unless otherwise noted.