---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 955"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "955"
heading: "Limitation on use of statistical information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/955"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Peanut Statistics"
---

# §955. Limitation on use of statistical information


The information furnished under the provisions of this chapter shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. No publication shall be made by the [Secretary](/usc/7/957.md?p=2) whereby the data furnished by any [person](/usc/7/957.md?p=1) can be identified nor shall the [Secretary](/usc/7/957.md?p=2) permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Department of Agriculture to examine the individual reports.


## Source credit

(June 24, 1936, ch. 745, § 5, 49 Stat. 1899.)