Grades and grade requirements for the classes Long Grain Milled Rice, Medium Grain Milled Rice, Short Grain Milled Rice, and Mixed Milled Rice. (See also § 868.315.)

Grades, Grade Requirements, and Grade Designations Grade Maximum limits of— Colorrequirements 1 Minimummillingrequirements 5 Seeds, heatdamaged, and paddy kernels(singly or combined) Red rice anddamagedkernels (singlyorcombined) (percent) Chalky kernels 1,2 Broken kernels Other types 4 Total (number in 500 grams) Heatdamagedkernels and objectionable seeds (numberin 500 grams) In long grainrice (percent) Inmedium or short grain rice (percent) Total (percent) Removed by a 5 plate 3 (percent) Removed by a 6 plate 3 (percent) Through a 6 sieve 3 (percent) Whole kernels (percent) Whole andbrokenkernels (percent) U.S. No. 1 2 1 0.5 1 2 4 0.04 0.1 0.1 1 White or creamy Well Milled. U.S. No. 2 4 2 1.5 2 4 7 0.06 0.2 0.2 2 Slightly gray Well Milled. U.S. No. 3 7 5 2.5 4 6 15 0.1 0.8 0.5 3 Light gray Reasonably well milled. U.S. No. 4 20 15 4 6 8 25 0.4 1 0.7 5 Gray or slightly rosy Reasonably well milled. U.S. No. 5 30 25 5 6.0 10 10 35 0.7 3 1 10 Dark gray or rosy Reasonably well milled. U.S. No. 6 75 75 6 15.0 15 15 50 1 4 2 10 Dark gray or rosy Reasonably well milled. U.S. Sample grade: U.S. Sample grade shall be milled rice of any of these classes which: (a) Does not meet the requirements for any of the grades from U.S. No. 1 to U.S. No. 6, 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) contains more than 0.1 percent of foreign material; (f) Contains two or more live or dead weevils or other insects, insect webbing, or insect refuse; (g) is otherwise of distinctly low quality. 1 For the special grade Parboiled milled rice, see § 868.315(c). 2 For the special grade Glutinous milled rice, see § 868.315(e). 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 Milled Rice. 5 For the special grade Undermilled milled rice, see § 868.315(d). 6 Grade U.S. No. 6 shall contain not more than 6.0 percent of damaged kernels.

[67 FR 61250, Sept. 30, 2002, as amended at 70 FR 37255, June 29, 2005]