Grade and grade requirements for the class Screenings Milled Rice. (See also § 868.315.)

Grades, Grade Requirements, and Grade Designations Grade Maximum limits of— Paddy kernels and seeds Chalky kernels 1,3 (percent) Color requirements 1 Minimum millingrequirements 2 Total(number in 500 grams) Objectionable seeds (number in 500 grams) U.S. No. 1 4,5 30 20 5 White or Creamy Well milled. U.S. No. 2 4,5 75 50 8 Slightly gray Well milled. U.S. No. 3 4,5 125 90 12 Light gray or slightly rosy Reasonably well milled. U.S. No. 4 4,5 175 140 20 Gray or rosy Reasonably well milled. U.S. No. 5 250 200 30 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 two or more live or dead weevils or other insects, insect webbing, or insect refuse; or (h) is otherwise of distinctly low quality. 1 For the special grade Parboiled milled rice, see § 868.315(c). 2 For the special grade Undermilled milled rice, see § 868.315(d). 3 For the special grade Glutinous milled rice, see § 868.315(e). 4 Grades 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. 5 Grades 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.

[67 FR 61251, Sept. 30, 2002]