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Title 7 → Subtitle B → Chapter VIII → Subchapter A → Part 868 → Subpart D → §868.261

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Title 7: Agriculture
PART 868—GENERAL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS FOR CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
Subpart D—United States Standards for Brown Rice for Processing

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

Grade	Maximum limits of—
	Paddy kernels		Seeds and heat-damaged kernels			Red rice and damaged kernels (singly or combined) (percent)	Chalky kernels^{1 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)	Red rice and damaged kernels (singly or combined) (percent)	Chalky kernels^{1 2} (percent)		Other types⁴	Wellmilled kernels (percent)
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

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.

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

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

³Plates 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.

⁴These 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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