---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 996.4"
title: "7"
number: "996.4"
heading: "Handle."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/996.4"
---

# §996.4. Handle.


Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning inshell, or crushing of domestic or imported peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned-inshell or shelled peanuts or other activity causing peanuts to enter into human consumption channels of commerce: Provided, That this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s): And provided further, That this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7958.

### Source

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