§ 918.61 - By minimum standards of quality and maturity.

(a) Industry Committee recommendation. Whenever the Industry Committee deems it advisable to establish minimum standards of quality or maturity, or of both quality and maturity, to govern shipments of peaches, it shall recommend to the Secretary the particular minimum standards which shipments of peaches must meet. Each such recommendation of the committee shall be in terms of (1) maturity; (2) minimum standards of quality, including but not being limited to, freedom from damage by worms and worm holes and freedom from decay, or (3) any combination or combinations of the foregoing. At the time of submitting each such recommendation to the Secretary, the Industry Committee shall also submit the supporting data and information upon which it acted in making such recommendation. The said committee shall also furnish such other data and information as may be requested by the Secretary.

(b) Establishment of minimum standards of quality and maturity. Whenever the Secretary finds, from the recommendation and information submitted by the Industry Committee, or from other available information, that to establish minimum standards of quality or maturity, or of both quality and maturity, for peaches and to limit the shipment of peaches to those meeting such minimum standards would be in the public interest and would tend to effectuate the declared policy of the act, he shall establish such standards, and so limit the shipment of peaches during a specified period or periods. The Secretary shall immediately notify the Industry Committee of the minimum standards so established.