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 sieve 3 (percent) Other types 4 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 2 1 1 1 U.S. No. 2 2 — 40 2 10 2 4 2 2 3 U.S. No. 3 2 — 70 4 20 4 6 3 5 10 U.S. No. 4 2 — 100 8 35 8 8 4 10 10 U.S. No. 5 2 — 150 15 50 15 15 6 10 10

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]