Grades, Grade Requirements, and Grade Designations

Open Table
Grade Maximum limits of—
Seeds, heat-damaged, and paddy kernels
(singly or combined)
Red rice and
damaged
kernels
(singly or combined) (percent)
Chalky kernels1 3 (percent) Color requirements1 Minimum
milling
requirements2
Total (number
in 500 grams)
Heat-damaged kernels and objectionable seeds (number in 500 grams)
U.S. No. 1 15 5 1.0 4.0 White or Creamy Well milled.
U.S. No. 2 20 10 2.0 6.0 Slightly gray Well milled.
U.S. No. 3 35 15 3.0 10.0 Light gray Reasonably well milled.
U.S. No. 4 50 25 5.0 15.0 Gray or slightly gray Reasonably well milled.
U.S. No. 5 75 40 10.0 20.0 Dark gray or 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) 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; or (g) is otherwise of distinctly low quality.

1For the special grade Parboiled milled rice, see §868.315(c).

2For the special grade Undermilled milled rice, see §868.315(d).

3For the special grade Glutinous milled rice, see §868.315(e).

[67 FR 61251, Sept. 30, 2002]


Tried the LawStack mobile app?

Join thousands and try LawStack mobile for FREE today.

  • Carry the law offline, wherever you go.
  • Download CFR, USC, rules, and state law to your mobile device.