(a) Damaged kernels. Kernels, pieces of rye kernels, and other grains that are badly ground-damaged, badly weather-damaged, diseased, frost-damaged, germ-damaged, heat-damaged, insect-bored, mold-damaged, sprout-damaged, or otherwise materially damaged.

(b) Dockage. All matter other than rye that can be removed from the original sample by use of an approved device in accordance with procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions. Also, underdeveloped, shriveled, and small pieces of rye kernels removed in properly separating the material other than rye and that cannot be recovered by properly rescreening and recleaning.

(c) Foreign material. All matter other than rye that remains in the sample after the removal of dockage.

(d) Heat-damaged kernels. Kernels, pieces of rye kernels, and other grains that are materially discolored and damaged by heat.

(e) Other grains. Barley, corn, cultivated buckwheat, einkorn, emmer, flaxseed, guar, hull-less barley, nongrain sorghum, oats, Polish wheat, popcorn, poulard wheat, rice, safflower, sorghum, soybeans, spelt, sunflower seed, sweet corn, triticale, wheat, and wild oats.

(f) Sieve—0.064 × 38 oblong-hole sieve. A metal sieve 0.032 inch thick with oblong perforations 0.064 by 0.375 ( 38 ) inch.

(g) Thin rye. Rye and other matter that passes through a 0.064 × 38 oblong-hole sieve after sieving according to procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions.


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