View all text of Subjgrp 537 [§ 996.30 - § 996.60]
§ 996.31 - Outgoing quality standards.
(a) Shelled peanuts: No handler or importer shall ship or otherwise dispose of shelled peanuts for human consumption unless such peanuts are positive lot identified, chemically analyzed by a USDA laboratory or USDA-approved laboratory and certified “negative” as to aflatoxin, and certified by the Inspection Service as meeting the following quality standards:
Minimum Quality Standards—Peanuts for Human Consumption
[Whole kernels and splits: Maximum limitations]
| Type and grade category | Unshelled peanuts and damaged
kernels and minor defects (percent) | Total fall through sound whole kernels and/or sound split and broken kernels | Foreign
materials (percent) | Moisture
(percent) | Runner | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Virginia (except No. 2) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Spanish and Valencia | 3.50 | 6.00%; 16/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | No. 2 Virginia | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Runner with splits (not more than 15% sound splits) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Virginia with splits (not more than 15% sound splits) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Spanish and Valencia with splits (not more than 15% sound splits) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 16/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Runner (not less than 90% splits) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Virginia (not less than 90% splits) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 17/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 | Spanish and Valencia (not less than 90% splits) | 3.50 | 6.00%; 16/64 inch round screen | .20 | 9.00 |
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(b) Cleaned-inshell peanuts: No handler or importer shall ship or otherwise dispose of cleaned-inshell peanuts for human consumption unless such peanuts are Positive lot identified and are determined by the Inspection Service to contain:
(1) Not more than l.00 percent kernels with mold unless a sample of such peanuts, drawn by an inspector of the Inspection Service, is analyzed chemically by a USDA laboratory or a USDA-approved laboratory and certified “negative” as to aflatoxin;
(2) Not more than 3.50 percent peanuts with damaged or defective kernels;
(3) Not more than 10.00 percent moisture; or
(4) Not more than 0.50 percent foreign material.