(a) The identity of all apples represented as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere storage shall be maintained from the original room or building where they were treated through the various channels of trade to the retailer.

Enforcing officers may investigate and examine records and invoices relating to any transactions in order to determine the identity of apples represented as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere storage, and shall consider all CA storage registration numbers pertinent to marketplace transactions.

(b) All owners or operators of controlled atmosphere rooms or storage facilities for apples in California, and California packers or repackers of apples treated in this or any other state and represented as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere shall register with the director on a prescribed form. The registration period for these owners, operators, packers, and repackers shall extend for one year beginning September 1 and ending August 31 of the following year.

(c) The director shall assign each approved registrant a registration number preceded by the letters CA.

(d) Each owner or operator of a controlled atmosphere room or storage facility in this State shall maintain a record on a daily basis, as required by the county agricultural commissioner, of the temperature, percentage of carbon dioxide, and percentage of oxygen, checked at least once each day. The required record shall also include the name and address of the owner or operator, room number(s), room capacity, lot identification, quantity in each lot, date of sealing, date of opening, and a daily record of date and time of each oxygen, carbon dioxide, and temperature test.

Each owner or operator of a controlled atmosphere room or building in this State shall submit to the county agricultural commissioner a written report, within 10 days of the date of sealing, pertaining to each room showing the owner's room number(s), date of sealing, and variety and quantity of apples stored by the owner or operator.

(e) Apples represented in any way as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere shall be moved in containers or consumer packages marked with the registration number of the owner or operator of the room or building where the apples were treated. These containers shall also be marked with the registration number of the California packer or repacker of the apples.

(f) All registration numbers or other identification required to be marked on containers shall be in letters and numbers not less than those prescribed in Table 1 of Section 1363; however, in the case of consumer packages as defined in this Article, all such markings shall be clear and conspicuous and in a place readily visible to the purchaser.

(g) A “lot” of apples means any group of containers of apples from one grower or orchard, of one variety, which is separated from other groups by some evidence such as a lot number or similar mark of identification.

A “packer” or “repacker” is a person other than an owner or operator of a controlled atmosphere storage plant who removes apples from the containers in which they were treated and places them into other containers or replaces them into the original containers.