Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 7 - Agriculture last revised: Nov 20, 2024
§ 160.2 - Spirits of turpentine defined.

Spirits of turpentine, also commonly known as turpentine, is the colorless or faintly colored volatile oil consisting principally of terpene hydrocarbons of the general empirical formula C10 H16 and having a characteristic odor and taste. It occurs naturally in and may be recovered by distillation from the oleoresinous secretions obtained from living trees of the family Pinaceae, or present in the cellular structure, or wood, of species thereof.

authority: 7 U.S.C. 94,1624
source: 11 FR 14665, Dec. 27, 1946; 17 FR 221, Jan. 9, 1952; 20 FR 6433, Sept. 1, 1955, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 7 CFR 160.2