Canned ripe olives of the tree-ripened type.

(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]