Grades and grade requirements for triticale.

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  10. Grades and grade requirements for triticale.

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§ 810.2004 Grades and grade requirements for triticale.

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Grade Minimum test weight per bushel (pounds) Maximum limits of -
Damaged Kernels Foreign material Shrunken and broken kernels (percent) Defects3 (percent)
Heat damaged (percent) Total1 (percent) Material other than wheat or rye (percent) Total2 (percent)
U.S. No. 1 48.0 0.2 2.0 1.0 2.0 5.0 5.0
U.S. No. 2 45.0 0.2 4.0 2.0 4.0 8.0 8.0
U.S. No. 3 43.0 0.5 8.0 3.0 7.0 12.0 12.0
U.S. No. 4 41.0 3.0 15.0 4.0 10.0 20.0 20.0
U.S. Sample grade -
U.S. Sample grade is triticale that:
(a) Does not meet the requirements for the grades U.S. Nos. 1, 2, 3, or 4; or
(b) Contains 8 or more stones or any number of stones which have an aggregate weight in excess of 0.2 percent of the sample weight, 2 or more pieces of glass, 3 or more crotalaria seeds (Crotalaria spp.), 2 or more castor beans (Ricinus communis L.), 4 or more particles of an unknown foreign substance(s) or a commonly recognized harmful or toxic substance(s), 2 or more rodent pellets, bird droppings, or equivalent quantity of other animal filth per 11⁄8 to 11⁄4 quarts of triticale; or
(c) Has a musty, sour, or commercially objectionable foreign odor (except smut or garlic odor); or
(d) Is heating or otherwise of distinctly low quality.

1 Includes heat-damaged kernels.

2 Includes material other than wheat or rye.

3 Defects include damaged kernels (total), foreign material (total) and shrunken and broken kernels. The sum of these three factors may not exceed the limit for defects for each numerical grade.

[52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987; 52 FR 28534, July 31, 1987]


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