Section 257 · Standards for agricultural products

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, from time to time, to establish and promulgate standards for agricultural products by which their quality or value may be judged or determined: Provided, That the standards for any agricultural products which have been, or which in future may be, established by or under authority or any other Act of Congress shall be, and are, adopted for the purposes of this chapter as the official standards of the United States for the agricultural products to which they relate.