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Code of Federal Regulations Title 7. Agriculture § 7.996.31 Outgoing quality standards

Current as of January 02, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(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)

Excluding Lots of “splits”

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

Lots of “splits”

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

(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.

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