(a) Canned ripe olives of the tree-ripened type means packaged olives, not oxidized in processing, that are prepared from a lot or sublot of natural condition olives of advanced maturity which:

(1) Range in color from pinkish red, with some greenish cast, to black; and

(2) Have not more than 10 percent, by count, of off-color olives (off-color means those olives whose greenish cast covers more than 50 percent of the surface of the individual olives).

(b) [Reserved]

[40 FR 38146, Aug. 27, 1975]