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 requirements 1 Minimum millingrequirements 2 Total (singly or combined)(percent) Objectionable seeds (percent) U.S. No. 1 3,4 0.5 0.05 White or Creamy Well milled. U.S. No. 2 3,4 1 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 0.4 Gray or rosy Reasonably well milled. U.S. No. 5 5 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. 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 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. 4 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. This limit does not apply to the special grade Granulated brewers milled rice.

[67 FR 61252, Sept. 30, 2002]