7 CFR § 810.2205 - Special grades and special grade requirements.

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title: "7 CFR § 810.2205 - Special grades and special grade requirements."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "810.2205"
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"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 71-87k."
regulatory_source: "52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, unless otherwise noted."
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# 810.2205 Special grades and special grade requirements.

(a) *Ergoty wheat.* Wheat that contains more than 0.05 percent of ergot.

(b) *Garlicky wheat.* Wheat that contains in a 1,000 gram portion more than two green garlic bulblets or an equivalent quantity of dry or partly dry bulblets.

(c) *Light smutty wheat.* Wheat that has an unmistakable odor of smut, or which contains, in a 250-gram portion, smut balls, portions of smut balls, or spores of smut in excess of a quantity equal to 5 smut balls, but not in excess of a quantity equal to 30 smut balls of average size.

(d) *Smutty wheat.* Wheat that contains, in a 250 gram portion, smut balls, portions of smut balls, or spores of smut in excess of a quantity equal to 30 smut balls of average size.

(e) *Treated wheat.* Wheat that has been scoured, limed, washed, sulfured, or treated in such a manner that the true quality is not reflected by either the numerical grades or the U.S. Sample grade designation alone.

[52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, as amended at 52 FR 24442, June 30, 1987; 57 FR 58967, Dec. 14, 1992]