§ 868.313 - Grades and grade requirements for the class Brewers Milled Rice. (See also § 868.315.)

§ 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 requirements1	Minimum milling requirements2
	Total (singly or combined) (percent)	Objectionable seeds (percent)
U.S. No. 13 4	0.5	0.05	White or Creamy	Well milled.
U.S. No. 23 4	1.0	0.1	Slightly gray	Well milled.
U.S. No. 33 4	1.5	0.2	Light gray or slightly rosy	Reasonably well milled.
U.S. No. 43 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.

[67 FR 61252, Sept. 30, 2002]