Grade and grade requirements for the classes of brown rice for processing. (See also § 868.263.)

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  10. Grade and grade requirements for the classes of brown rice for processing. (See also § 868.263.)

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§ 868.261 Grade and grade requirements for the classes of brown rice for processing. (See also § 868.263.)

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Grade Maximum limits of -
Paddy kernels Seeds and heat-damaged kernels Red rice and damaged kernels (singly or combined) (percent) Chalky kernels1 2 (percent) Broken kernels removed by a 6 plate or a 61⁄2 sieve3 (percent) Other types4 Wellmilled kernels (percent)
Percent Number in 500 grams Total (singly or combined) (number in 500 grams) Heat-damaged kernels (number in 500 grams) Objectionable seeds (number in 500 grams)
U.S. No. 1 - 20 10 1 2 1.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
U.S. No. 2 2.0 - 40 2 10 2.0 4.0 2.0 2.0 3.0
U.S. No. 3 2.0 - 70 4 20 4.0 6.0 3.0 5.0 10.0
U.S. No. 4 2.0 - 100 8 35 8.0 8.0 4.0 10.0 10.0
U.S. No. 5 2.0 - 150 15 50 15.0 15.0 6.0 10.0 10.0
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U.S. Sample grade U.S. Sample grade shall be brown rice for processing which (a) does not meet the requirements for any of the grades from U.S. No. 1 to U.S. No. 5, inclusive; (b) contains more than 14.5 percent of moisture; (c) is musty, or sour, or heating; (d) has any commercially objectionable foreign odor; (e) contains more than 0.2 percent of related material or more than 0.1 percent of unrelated material; (f) contains two or more live weevils or other live insects; or (g) is otherwise of distinctly low quality.

1 For the special grade Parboiled brown rice for processing, see § 868.263(a).

2 For the special grade Glutinous brown rice for processing, see § 868.263(c).

3 Plates should be used for southern production rice and sieves should be used for western production rice, but any device or method which gives equivalent results may be used.

4 These limits do not apply to the class Mixed Brown Rice for Processing.

[56 FR 55979, Oct. 31, 1991. Redesignated and amended at 60 FR 16364, Mar. 30, 1995]


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