Article 3. Caprifigs of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 4. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 11. >> Article 3.

Caprifigs, unless properly treated, contribute to, and are responsible for, the transmission of endosepsis and other plant diseases by the blastophaga which the figs contain.

Every person who owns, raises, uses, packs, ships, or delivers for shipment or sells any caprifigs of the mamme crop for use within the county, shall treat such figs by a method which is approved by the commissioner for the prevention or elimination of endosepsis or the transmission of endosepsis by the blastophaga in the figs.

If any caprifigs of the mamme crop are to be shipped or used outside the county, the person that owns, raises, uses, packs, ships or delivers them for shipment shall notify the commissioner of the county within which the figs are to be used of all of the following:
  (a) The shipment.
  (b) The nature of the shipment.
  (c) The name and residence of the consignee.

After the notice, the commissioner shall require the consignee to properly treat the figs for the prevention or elimination of endosepsis before using them.

It is unlawful for any person to violate Section 6152, 6153, or 6154.

It is unlawful for any person to pack, ship, deliver for shipment, or sell in any container any caprifigs of the profichi crop which violate any of the following:
  (a) Do not contain matured pollen.
  (b) Do not contain living Blastophaga insect in the adult stage.
  (c) Contain more than 25 percent of spent figs.
  (d) Contain more than 10 percent of blanks.

It is unlawful for any person to pack, ship, deliver for shipment or sell in any container any caprifigs of the mamme crop, which contain more than 25 percent of spent figs, or more than 10 percent of blanks.