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7 CFR § 810.1005 - Special grades and special grade requirements.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s810.1005"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 810.1005 - Special grades and special grade requirements."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "810.1005"
section_name: "Special grades and special grade requirements."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION SERVICE, FAIR TRADE PRACTICES PROGRAM), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION"
part_number: "810"
part_name: "OFFICIAL UNITED STATES STANDARDS FOR GRAIN"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 71-87k."
regulatory_source: "52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "810"
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# 810.1005 Special grades and special grade requirements.

(a) *Bleached oats.* Oats that in whole or in part, have been treated with sulfurous acid or any other bleaching agent.

(b) *Bright oats.* Oats, except bleached oats, that are of good natural color.

(c) *Ergoty oats.* Oats that contain more than 0.10 percent ergot.

(d) *Extra-heavy oats.* Oats that have a test weight per bushel of 40 pounds or more.

(e) *Garlicky oats.* Oats that contain 4 or more green garlic bulblets or an equivalent quantity of dry or partly dry bulblets in 500 grams of oats.

(f) *Heavy oats.* Oats that have a test weight per bushel of 38 pounds or more but less than 40 pounds.

(g) *Smutty oats.* Oats that have kernels covered with smut spores to give a smutty appearance in mass, or that contain more than 0.2 percent of smut balls.

(h) *Thin oats.* Oats that contain more than 20.0 percent of oats and other matter, except fine seeds, that pass through a 0.064 × 
3/8 oblong-hole sieve but remain on top of a 
5/64 triangular-hole sieve after sieving according to procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions.

[52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, as amended at 52 FR 24441, June 30, 1987]