In order to promote, protect, further and develop the agricultural interests of this state, the State Quarantine Officer is hereby authorized and empowered, after investigation and public hearing:
1. To fix and promulgate:
(a) Official standards for grading and classifying any or all agricultural products offered for sale in this state; and
(b) Official standards for containers of farm products.
2. To change any of them from time to time.
[2:225:1931; A 1949, 87; 1943 NCL § 451.01]