U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
Regulations most recently checked for updates: Aug 28, 2025
(a) Damaged kernels. Kernels, pieces of rye kernels, and other grains that are badly ground-damaged, badly weather-damaged, diseased, frost-damaged, germ-damaged, heat-damaged, insect-bored, mold-damaged, sprout-damaged, or otherwise materially damaged.
(b) Dockage. All matter other than rye that can be removed from the original sample by use of an approved device in accordance with procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions. Also, underdeveloped, shriveled, and small pieces of rye kernels removed in properly separating the material other than rye and that cannot be recovered by properly rescreening and recleaning.
(c) Foreign material. All matter other than rye that remains in the sample after the removal of dockage.
(d) Heat-damaged kernels. Kernels, pieces of rye kernels, and other grains that are materially discolored and damaged by heat.
(e) Other grains. Barley, corn, cultivated buckwheat, einkorn, emmer, flaxseed, guar, hull-less barley, nongrain sorghum, oats, Polish wheat, popcorn, poulard wheat, rice, safflower, sorghum, soybeans, spelt, sunflower seed, sweet corn, triticale, wheat, and wild oats.
(f) Sieve—0.064 ×
(g) Thin rye. Rye and other matter that passes through a 0.064 ×