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[CITE: 7USC1593]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1593. Standards, tests, tolerances

    (a) The samplings, analyses, tests, or examinations of seeds made in 
connection with the administration of this chapter shall be made by 
methods set forth by rules and regulations prescribed under section 1592 
of this title.
    (b) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to make 
and promulgate by rules and regulations, reasonable tolerances as to the 
percentages and rates of occurrence required to be stated or required by 
this chapter.
    (c) For the purpose of section 1571(b) of this title, the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized and directed to investigate, determine, 
establish, and promulgate from time to time such reasonable standards of 
germination for each kind of vegetable seed as will in his judgment best 
protect crop production.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, Sec. 403, 53 Stat. 1285.)


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1561, 1571 of this title.
