Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§3406 Exemption for Retail Bakers
Title 7 › Chapter 65— WHEAT AND WHEAT FOODS RESEARCH AND NUTRITION EDUCATION › § 3406
Summary
Retail bakers do not have to follow the rules in this chapter. A retail baker is a maker who sells finished baked goods directly to the final customer. But a maker is not a retail baker if under 10 percent of its finished-product sales come from those final-customer sales, or if 10 percent or more of its total food sales are items it bought from others.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §3406
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Any end product manufacturer who is a retail baker shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. For the purposes of this section, the term “retail baker” shall be deemed to include all end product manufacturers who sell end products directly to the ultimate consumer: Provided, That such term shall not include any end product manufacturer who derives less than 10 per centum of gross end product sales revenues from sales to ultimate consumers or who derives 10 per centum or more of gross food or food products sales revenues from the sale of such products manufactured or produced by others.
Legislative History
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an
Effective Date
of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 3406
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60