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Title 7 → Subtitle B → Chapter VIII → Subchapter A → Part 868 → Subpart E → §868.313

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

§868.313 Grades and grade requirements for the class Brewers Milled Rice. (See also §868.315.)

Grades, Grade Requirements, and Grade Designations

Grade	Maximum limits of— paddy kernels and seeds		Color requirements¹	Minimum milling requirements²
Grade	Total (singly or combined) (percent)	Objectionable seeds (percent)	Color requirements¹	Minimum milling requirements²
U.S. No. 1^{3 4}	0.5	0.05	White or Creamy	Well milled.
U.S. No. 2^{3 4}	1.0	0.1	Slightly gray	Well milled.
U.S. No. 3^{3 4}	1.5	0.2	Light gray or slightly rosy	Reasonably well milled.
U.S. No. 4^{3 4}	3.0	0.4	Gray or rosy	Reasonably well milled.
U.S. No. 5	5.0	1.5	Dark gray or very rosy	Reasonably well milled.
U.S. Sample grade:
U.S. Sample grade shall be milled rice of this class 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 15.0 percent of moisture; (c) is musty or sour, or heating; (d) has any commercially objectionable foreign odor; (e) has a badly damaged or extremely red appearance; (f) contains more than 0.1 percent of foreign material; (g) contains more than 15.0 percent of broken kernels that will pass through a 21⁄2 sieve; (h) contains two or more live or dead weevils or other insects, insect webbing, or insect refuse; or (h) is otherwise of distinctly low quality.

¹For the special grade Parboiled milled rice, see §868.315(c).

²For the special grade Undermilled milled rice, see §868.315(d).

³Grades U.S. No. 1 to U.S. No. 4, inclusive, shall contain not more than 3.0 percent of heat-damaged kernels, kernels damaged by heat and/or parboiled kernels in nonparboiled rice.

⁴Grades U.S. No. 1 to U.S. No. 4, inclusive, shall contain not more than 1.0 percent of material passing through a 30 sieve. This limit does not apply to the special grade Granulated brewers milled rice.

[67 FR 61252, Sept. 30, 2002]

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