---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7482"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7482"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7482"
units:
  - "Chapter 101 — Agricultural Promotion"
  - "Subchapter V — Popcorn"
---

# §7482. Definitions


In this subchapter (unless the context otherwise requires):

- (1) **Board—** The term “Board” means the [Popcorn](#9) Board established under [section 7484(b) of this title](/usc/7/7484.md?p=b).
- (2) **Commerce—** The term “commerce” means interstate, foreign, or intrastate commerce.
- (3) **Consumer information—** The term “consumer information” means information and programs that will assist consumers and other [persons](#8) in making evaluations and decisions regarding the purchase, preparation, and use of [popcorn](#9).
- (4) **Department—** The term “Department” means the Department of Agriculture.
- (5) **Industry information—** The term “industry information” means information or a program that will lead to the development of—
  - (A) new [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1), new [marketing](#6) strategies, or increased efficiency for the [popcorn](#9) industry; or
  - (B) activities to enhance the image of the [popcorn](#9) industry.
- (6) **Marketing—** The term “marketing” means the sale or other disposition of unpopped [popcorn](#9) for human consumption in a channel of [commerce](#2), but does not include a sale or disposition to or between [processors](#11).
- (7) **Order—** The term “order” means an order issued under [section 7483 of this title](/usc/7/7483.md).
- (8) **Person—** The term “person” means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, association, or cooperative, or any other legal entity.
- (9) **Popcorn—** The term “popcorn” means unpopped popcorn (Zea Mays L) that is—
  - (A) commercially grown;
  - (B) processed in the [United States](#16) by shelling, cleaning, or drying; and
  - (C) introduced into a channel of [commerce](#2).
- (10) **Process—** The term “process” means to shell, clean, dry, and prepare [popcorn](#9) for the [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1), but does not include packaging [popcorn](#9) for the [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) without also engaging in another activity described in this paragraph.
- (11) **Processor—** The term “processor” means a [person](#8) engaged in the preparation of unpopped [popcorn](#9) for the [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) who owns or shares the ownership and risk of loss of the [popcorn](#9) and who [processes](#10) and distributes over 4,000,000 pounds of [popcorn](#9) in the [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) per year.
- (12) **Promotion—** The term “promotion” means an action, including paid advertising, to enhance the image or desirability of [popcorn](#9).
- (13) **Research—** The term “research” means any type of study to advance the image, desirability, marketability, production, product development, quality, or nutritional value of [popcorn](#9).
- (14) **Secretary—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- (15) **State—** The term “State” means each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
- (16) **United States—** The term “United States” means all of the [States](#15).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–127, title V, § 573, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1075.)