---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1594"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1594"
heading: "Prohibition against alterations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1594"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — Seeds"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
---

# §1594. Prohibition against alterations


No [person](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-2) shall detach, alter, deface, or destroy any [label](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-17) provided for in this chapter or the rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture, or alter or substitute seed in a manner that may defeat the purpose of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 404, 53 Stat. 1286.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

See section 1610 of this title.