---
kind: "unit"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
key: "subtB/chIX/part996"
level: "part"
label: "Part 996"
heading: "Minimum Quality and Handling Standards for Domestic and Imported Peanuts Marketed in the United States"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/subtB-chIX-part996"
sections_count: 32
---

# Part 996 — Minimum Quality and Handling Standards for Domestic and Imported Peanuts Marketed in the United States

Title 7 C.F.R. — Agriculture › Subtitle B — Regulations of the Department of Agriculture › Chapter IX — Agricultural Marketing Service (marketing Agreements and Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), Department of Agriculture

## Sections

- [§996.1. Act and scope.](/cfr/7/996.1.md)
- [§996.2. Conditional release.](/cfr/7/996.2.md)
- [§996.3. Crop year.](/cfr/7/996.3.md)
- [§996.4. Handle.](/cfr/7/996.4.md)
- [§996.5. Handler.](/cfr/7/996.5.md)
- [§996.6. Importation.](/cfr/7/996.6.md)
- [§996.7. Importer.](/cfr/7/996.7.md)
- [§996.8. Incoming inspection.](/cfr/7/996.8.md)
- [§996.9. Inshell peanuts.](/cfr/7/996.9.md)
- [§996.10. Inspection Service.](/cfr/7/996.10.md)
- [§996.11. Negative aflatoxin content.](/cfr/7/996.11.md)
- [§996.12. Outgoing inspection.](/cfr/7/996.12.md)
- [§996.13. Peanuts.](/cfr/7/996.13.md)
- [§996.14. Person.](/cfr/7/996.14.md)
- [§996.15. Positive lot identification.](/cfr/7/996.15.md)
- [§996.16. Producer.](/cfr/7/996.16.md)
- [§996.17. Reserved](/cfr/7/996.17.md)
- [§996.18. Secretary.](/cfr/7/996.18.md)
- [§996.19. Shelled peanuts.](/cfr/7/996.19.md)
- [§996.20. USDA.](/cfr/7/996.20.md)
- [§996.21. USDA laboratory.](/cfr/7/996.21.md)
- [§996.22. USDA-approved laboratory.](/cfr/7/996.22.md)
- [§996.30. Incoming quality standards.](/cfr/7/996.30.md)
- [§996.31. Outgoing quality standards.](/cfr/7/996.31.md)
- [§996.40. Handling standards.](/cfr/7/996.40.md)
- [§996.50. Reconditioning failing quality peanuts.](/cfr/7/996.50.md)
- [§996.60. Safeguard procedures for imported peanuts.](/cfr/7/996.60.md)
- [§996.71. Reports and recordkeeping.](/cfr/7/996.71.md)
- [§996.72. Confidential information.](/cfr/7/996.72.md)
- [§996.73. Verification of reports.](/cfr/7/996.73.md)
- [§996.74. Compliance.](/cfr/7/996.74.md)
- [§996.75. Effective time.](/cfr/7/996.75.md)