868.261 Grade and grade requirements for the classes of brown rice for processing. (See also 868.263.)
| Maximum limits of: | ||||||||||
| Paddy kernels | Seeds and heat-damaged kernels | |||||||||
| Grade U.S. No. | Percent | Number in 500 grams | Total (singly or combined) (number in grams) | Heat-damaged kernels (number in 500 grams) | Objectionable seeds (number in 500 grams) | Red rice and damaged kernels (singly or combined) (percent) | Chalky kernels [1], [2] (percent) | Broken kernels removed by a 6 plate or a 6 1/2 sieve[3] (percent) | Other types [4] | Well-milled kernels (percent) |
| 1 2 3 4 5 |
-- 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 |
20 -- -- -- -- |
10 40 70 100 150 |
1 2 4 8 15 |
2 10 20 35 50 |
1.0 2.0 4.0 8.0 15.0 |
2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 15.0 |
1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 6.0 |
1.0 2.0 5.0 10.0 10.0 |
1.0 3.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 |
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.
- For the special grade Parboiled brown rice for processing, see 868.263(a).
- For the special grade Glutinous brown rice for processing, see 868.263(c).
- 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.
- These limits do not apply to the class Mixed Brown Rice for Processing.
Source: USDA, Federal Grain Inspection Service, Effective September 1995