(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]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unshelled
Unshelled peanuts and
peanuts and damaged Total fall through Foreign
Type and grade category damaged kernels and Sound whole kernels materials Moisture
kernels minor and/or sound split and (percent) (percent)
(percent) defects broken kernels
(percent)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Excluding Lots of ``splits''----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Runner.............................. 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
round screen.Virginia (except No. 2)............. 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
round screen.Spanish and Valencia................ 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \16/64\ inch .20 9.00
round screen.No. 2 Virginia...................... 1.50 3.00 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
round screen.Runner with splits (not more than 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
15% sound splits). round screen.Virginia with splits (not more than 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
15% sound splits). round screen.Spanish and Valencia with splits 1.50 2.50 6.00%; \16/64\ inch .20 9.00
(not more than 15% sound splits). round screen.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lots of ``splits''----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Runner (not less than 90% splits)... 2.00 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
round screen.Virginia (not less than 90% splits). 2.00 2.50 6.00%; \17/64\ inch .20 9.00
round screen.Spanish and Valencia (not less than 2.00 2.50 6.00%; \16/64\ inch .20 9.00
90% splits). round screen.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(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]