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[CITE: 7USC1304]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
  Part A--Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards
 
Sec. 1304. Consumer safeguards

    The powers conferred under this chapter shall not be used to 
discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to 
maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the 
Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 
1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population 
quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption 
by decline in exports during such period, current trends in domestic 
consumption and exports of particular commodities, and the quantities of 
substitutes available for domestic consumption within any general class 
of food commodities. In carrying out the purposes of this chapter it 
shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due regard to the maintenance 
of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities from 
domestic production adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to 
both producers and consumers.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 304, 52 Stat. 45.)
