{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-996.4","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 996.4","heading":"Handle.","body":"Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning inshell, or crushing of domestic or imported peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned-inshell or shelled peanuts or other activity causing peanuts to enter into human consumption channels of commerce: Provided, That this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s): And provided further, That this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER IX—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; FRUITS, VEGETABLES, NUTS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","PART 996—MINIMUM QUALITY AND HANDLING STANDARDS FOR DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED PEANUTS MARKETED IN THE UNITED STATES"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"e8cf641487eb81dae3c3b0b2b8475087d499c5ee73f27f33e77c17d78b37ca09","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-996.3","next":"us/7-cfr-996.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}