---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 993.601"
title: "7"
number: "993.601"
heading: "More restrictive grade regulation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/993.601"
---

# §993.601. More restrictive grade regulation.

- (a) **Incoming and outgoing regulation.** Whenever the estimated season average price to producers for prunes does not exceed the parity level specified in [section 2(1)](/cfr/7/2.md?p=1) of the act, the minimum standards which handlers' receipts of natural condition prunes are required to meet pursuant to [§ 993.49(a)](/cfr/7/993.49.md?p=a) shall be the standards specified in §§ [993.49(a)](/cfr/7/993.49.md?p=a) and [993.97(I)](/cfr/7/993.97.md?p=I), and the minimum standards which handlers' shipments or other final dispositions of prunes are required to meet pursuant to [§ 993.50(a)](/cfr/7/993.50.md?p=a) shall be the applicable standards set forth in [§ 993.97](/cfr/7/993.97.md) Exhibit A; minimum standards, except that the following revised tolerance allowances shall apply in lieu of the tolerance allowances prescribed in paragraphs I C(2), II C(3), I C(5) and II C(6) of [§ 993.97](/cfr/7/993.97.md) as follows:
  - (1) The combined tolerance allowance for off-color, inferior meat condition, end cracks, fermentation, skin or flesh damage, scab, burned, mold, imbedded dirt, insect infestation, and decay shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%), except that the first eight percent (8%) of end cracks shall be given one-half value and any additional percentage of end cracks shall be given full value.
  - (2) The combined tolerance allowance for mold, brown rot, imbedded dirt, insect infestation, and decay shall not exceed five percent (5%), and, within such tolerance, brown rot shall not exceed three percent (3%).
- (b) **Above parity situations.** Whenever the estimated season average price to producers for prunes exceeds the parity level specified in [section 2(1)](/cfr/7/2.md?p=1) of the act, the minimum standards set forth in [§ 993.97](/cfr/7/993.97.md) shall apply in their entirety.

## Notes

### Amendments

[27 FR 7540, Aug. 1, 1962, as amended at 59 FR 38113, July 27, 1994]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 26 FR 476, Jan. 19, 1961, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[27 FR 7540, Aug. 1, 1962, as amended at 59 FR 38113, July 27, 1994]