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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 requirements 1	Minimum milling requirements 2
Grade	Total (singly or combined) (percent)	Objectionable seeds (percent)	Color requirements 1	Minimum milling requirements 2
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.
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.

Code of Federal Regulations

[67 FR 61252, Sept. 30, 2002]

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