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Change in minimum quality and handling standards for domestic and imported peanuts marketed in the United States
Washington, DC
August 1, 2005

[Federal Register: August 1, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 146)]
[Rules and Regulations]              
[Page 44043-44046]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01au05-1]                        

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
7 CFR Part 996
[Docket No. FV05-996-2 FR]

Change in minimum quality and handling standards for domestic and imported peanuts marketed in the United States

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: This rule changes the peanut quality and handling standards (Standards) to require that domestic and imported peanuts be dried to 18 percent moisture or less prior to inspection and to 10.49 percent or less prior to storing or milling. Virginia-type peanuts used for seed must be dried to 18 percent or less prior to inspection and to 11.49 percent or less prior to storing or milling. The Standards and the Peanut Standards Board (Board) were established by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), pursuant to section 1308 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. The Board suggested changing the peanut quality and handling standards to allow handlers and importers to receive or acquire high moisture peanuts to promote the development of new drying technologies, increase efficiencies, and reduce costs to the industry.

DATES: Effective August 2, 2005.

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