7 CFR §810.1002
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- (a)Fine seeds. All matter that passes through a 5/64 triangular-hole sieve after sieving according to procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions.
- (b)Foreign material. All matter other than oats, wild oats, and other grains.
- (c)Heat-damaged kernels. Kernels and pieces of oat kernels, other grains, and wild oats that are materially discolored and damaged by heat.
- (d)Other grains. Barley, corn, cultivated buckwheat, einkorn, emmer, flaxseed, guar, hull-less barley, nongrain sorghum, Polish wheat, popcorn, poulard wheat, rice, rye, safflower, sorghum, soybeans, spelt, sunflower seed, sweet corn, triticale, and wheat.
- (e)Sieves—(1) 5/64 triangular-hole sieve. A metal sieve 0.032 inch thick with equilateral triangular perforations the inscribed circles of which are 0.0781 ( 5/64) inch in diameter.
- (2)0.064 × 3/8 oblong-hole sieve. A metal sieve 0.032 inch thick with oblong perforations 0.064 inch by 0.375 ( 3/8) inch.
- (f)Sound oats. Kernels and pieces of oat kernels (except wild oats) that are not badly ground-damaged, badly weather-damaged, diseased, frost-damaged, germ-damaged, heat-damaged, insect-bored, mold-damaged, sprout-damaged, or otherwise materially damaged.
- (g)Wild oats. Seeds of Avena fatua L. and A. sterillis L.