§ 868.310 - 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.)  


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  • § 868.310 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 - Color
    requirements1
    Minimum
    milling
    requirements5
    Seeds, heat
    damaged, and paddy kernels
    (singly or combined)
    Red rice and
    damaged
    kernels (singly
    or
    combined) (percent)
    Chalky kernels1 2 Broken kernels Other types4
    Total (number in 500 grams) Heat
    damaged
    kernels and objectionable seeds (number
    in 500 grams)
    In long grain
    rice (percent)
    In
    medium or short grain rice (percent)
    Total (percent) Removed by a 5 plate3 (percent) Removed by a 6 plate3 (percent) Through a 6 sieve3 (percent) Whole kernels (percent) Whole and
    broken
    kernels (percent)
    U.S. No. 1 2 1 0.5 1.0 2.0 4.0 0.04 0.1 0.1 1.0 White or creamy Well Milled.
    U.S. No. 2 4 2 1.5 2.0 4.0 7.0 0.06 0.2 0.2 2.0 Slightly gray Well Milled.
    U.S. No. 3 7 5 2.5 4.0 6.0 15.0 0.1 0.8 0.5 3.0 Light gray Reasonably well milled.
    U.S. No. 4 20 15 4.0 6.0 8.0 25.0 0.4 1.0 0.7 5.0 Gray or slightly rosy Reasonably well milled.
    U.S. No. 5 30 25 5 6.0 10.0 10.0 35.0 0.7 3.0 1.0 10.0 Dark gray or rosy Reasonably well milled.
    U.S. No. 6 75 75 6 15.0 15.0 15.0 50.0 1.0 4.0 2.0 10.0 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.

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