---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 996.30"
title: "7"
number: "996.30"
heading: "Incoming quality standards."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/996.30"
---

# §996.30. Incoming quality standards.

- (a) All farmers stock peanuts received or acquired by a handler shall be officially inspected by the Inspection Service, and certified as to segregation, moisture content, and foreign material.
- (b) **Moisture.** Domestic and imported peanuts shall be dried to 18 percent or less prior to inspection and to 10.49 percent or less prior to storing or milling: Provided, That Virginia-type peanuts used for seed shall be dried to 18 percent or less prior to inspection and to 11.49 percent or less prior to storing or milling.

## Notes

### Amendments

[67 FR 57140, Sept. 9, 2002, as amended at 68 FR 1157, Jan. 9, 2003; 70 FR 44046, Aug. 1, 2005; 81 FR 50288, Aug. 1, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7958.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 57140, Sept. 9, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[67 FR 57140, Sept. 9, 2002, as amended at 68 FR 1157, Jan. 9, 2003; 70 FR 44046, Aug. 1, 2005; 81 FR 50288, Aug. 1, 2016]