California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 3 - Economics › Chapter 1 - Fruit and Vegetable Standardization › Subchapter 4 - Fresh Fruits, Nuts and Vegetables › Article 7 - Apples › Section 1400.42 - Apples, Controlled Atmosphere Registration

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
					 identity of all apples represented as having been exposed to controlled
					 atmosphere storage shall be maintained from the original room or building where
					 they were treated through the various channels of trade to the retailer.
Enforcing officers may investigate and examine records
						and invoices relating to any transactions in order to determine the identity of
						apples represented as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere storage, and
						shall consider all CA storage registration numbers pertinent to marketplace
						transactions.
(b) All owners
					 or operators of controlled atmosphere rooms or storage facilities for apples in
					 California, and California packers or repackers of apples treated in this or
					 any other state and represented as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere
					 shall register with the director on a prescribed form. The registration period
					 for these owners, operators, packers, and repackers shall extend for one year
					 beginning September 1 and ending August 31 of the following year.
(c) The director shall assign each approved
					 registrant a registration number preceded by the letters CA.
(d) Each owner or operator of a controlled
					 atmosphere room or storage facility in this State shall maintain a record on a
					 daily basis, as required by the county agricultural commissioner, of the
					 temperature, percentage of carbon dioxide, and percentage of oxygen, checked at
					 least once each day. The required record shall also include the name and
					 address of the owner or operator, room number(s), room capacity, lot
					 identification, quantity in each lot, date of sealing, date of opening, and a
					 daily record of date and time of each oxygen, carbon dioxide, and temperature
					 test.
Each owner or operator of a controlled atmosphere room or
						building in this State shall submit to the county agricultural commissioner a
						written report, within 10 days of the date of sealing, pertaining to each room
						showing the owner's room number(s), date of sealing, and variety and quantity
						of apples stored by the owner or operator.
(e) Apples represented in any way as having
					 been exposed to controlled atmosphere shall be moved in containers or consumer
					 packages marked with the registration number of the owner or operator of the
					 room or building where the apples were treated. These containers shall also be
					 marked with the registration number of the California packer or repacker of the
					 apples.
(f) All registration
					 numbers or other identification required to be marked on containers shall be in
					 letters and numbers not less than those prescribed in Table 1 of Section
					 1363; however, in the case of
					 consumer packages as defined in this Article, all such markings shall be clear
					 and conspicuous and in a place readily visible to the purchaser.
(g) A "lot" of apples means any group of
					 containers of apples from one grower or orchard, of one variety, which is
					 separated from other groups by some evidence such as a lot number or similar
					 mark of identification.
A "packer" or "repacker" is a person other than an owner
						or operator of a controlled atmosphere storage plant who removes apples from
						the containers in which they were treated and places them into other containers
						or replaces them into the original containers.
1. New
						section filed 1-21-75; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 75, No.
						4).
2. Renumbering and amendment of Section
						1400.70 to Section
						1400.42 and renumbering and
						amendment of former Section
						1400.42 to Section
						1400.28 filed 6-5-81; effective
						thirtieth day thereafter (Register 81, No. 23).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  407
						  and
						  42684,
						  Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Section
						  42941,
						  Food and Agricultural Code.