7 C.F.R. § 996.31

Current through October 31, 2024
Section 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)
Excluding Lots of "splits"
Runner3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Virginia (except No. 2)3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Spanish and Valencia3.506.00%; 16/64 inch round screen.209.00
No. 2 Virginia3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Runner with splits (not more than 15% sound splits)3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Virginia with splits (not more than 15% sound splits)3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Spanish and Valencia with splits (not more than 15% sound splits)3.506.00%; 16/64 inch round screen.209.00
Lots of "splits"
Runner (not less than 90% splits)3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Virginia (not less than 90% splits)3.506.00%; 17/64 inch round screen.209.00
Spanish and Valencia (not less than 90% splits)3.506.00%; 16/64 inch round screen.209.00

(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.

7 C.F.R. §996.31

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; 81 FR 50288 , Aug. 1, 2016
81 FR 50288 , 8/31/2016