[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 7, Volume 8] [Revised as of January 1, 2007] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 7CFR996] [Page 722-724] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 996_MINIMUM QUALITY AND HANDLING STANDARDS FOR DOMESTIC AND Sec. 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: [[Page 723]] Minimum Quality Standards--Peanuts for Human Consumption [Whole kernels and splits: Maximum limitations] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unshelled Unshelled peanuts and peanuts and damaged Total fall through Sound Foreign Type and grade category damaged kernels and whole kernels and/or materials Moisture kernels minor sound split and broken (percent) (percent) (percent) defects kernels (percent) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excluding Lots of ``splits'' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Runner........................... 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 screen. Virginia (except No. 2).......... 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 screen. Spanish and Valencia............. 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \16/64\ inch round .20 9.00 screen. No. 2 Virginia................... 1.50 3.00 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 screen. Runner with splits (not more than 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 15% sound splits). screen. Virginia with splits (not more 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 than 15% sound splits). screen. Spanish and Valencia with splits 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \16/64\ inch round .20 9.00 (not more than 15% sound splits). screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lots of ``splits'' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Runner (not less than 90% splits) 2.00 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 screen. Virginia (not less than 90% 2.00 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch round .20 9.00 splits). screen. Spanish and Valencia (not less 2.00 2.50 6.00%; \16/64\ inch round .20 9.00 than 90% splits). screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 724]] (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 2.00 percent peanuts with damaged kernels; (3) Not more than 10.00 percent moisture; or (4) Not more than 0.50 percent foreign material. [67 FR 57140, Sept. 9, 2002; 67 FR 63503, Oct. 11, 2002, as amended at 68 FR 46924, Aug. 7, 2003; 68 FR 53490, Sept. 11, 2003]