United States Department of Agriculture

Agricultural Marketing Service

Federal Grain Inspection Service

Administrative Directive 1020.2 May 7, 1992

Distribution: FGIS, OSP, Industry Originating Office: ODA

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employer.

LISTING OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD COMMODITIES ASSIGNED TO FGIS

Contents

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1. PURPOSE

This Directive provides a listing of agricultural and food commodities assigned

to the Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS)

2. REPLACEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

This Directive replaces FGIS Directive 101.3, dated 5/19/8

3. RESPONSIBILITIES

An alphabetical listing of the agricultural and food commodities assigned to

FGIS for standardization, classing, inspection, grading, sampling, or testing is

attached. Responsibilities for marketing agreements and orders, procurement

and market news activities for the commodities in the attachment remain with

the Agricultural Marketing Service

4. QUESTIONS

Direct any questions concerning this directive to the Policies, Procedures, and Market 

Analysis Branch at (202) 720-0228

Attachment
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Attachment

Alphabetical Listing of Commodities Assigned to FGIS

FGIS is responsible for the standardization, classing, inspection, grading, sampling, or

testing of the following commodities:

Alcohol and alcoholic beverages derived from grain

Alfalfa meal

Bakery mixes and products

Baking soda and baking powder

Barley and barley products

Beans, dry edible and products thereof (including dry soup mix, powdered, roasted, 

seasoned, or salted)

Beet pulp

Birdseed

Biscuits (all kinds)

Bone meal

Bran

Bread

Brewers dried grains

Broom corn

Buckwheat, including flour and cereal

Bulgur

Calcium acid phosphate

Canola

Cereals and cereal preparations

Chick peas (Garbanzos)

Chicory seed

Citrus pulp feed

Coconut oil

Copra

Copra meal

Corn

Corn grits

Corn meal

Corn oil

Corn syrup solids

Corn soya blend

Cornstarch

Cottonseed meal, cakes, and pellets

Cottonseed oil

Cowpeas

Cracked Corn

Cracked wheat

Crackers and cracker meal

Dextrin

Dextrose

Distillers dried grains
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Dog biscuits

Farina Fatty acids

Fatty alcohols

Feather meal

Feed and grain products

Feeding oil

Flaxseed

Flour (all kinds except potato)

Garbanzos (chick peas)

Glycerine

Graham flour

Grain, mixed

Granite grits and meal

Grass seed

Guar

Hard bread

Hay

Hempseed

Hempseed oil

Hominy grits

Hops

Isolated soy protein

Laundry starch

Leavening compounds

Lentils, dry and products thereof 

(including dry soup mix, powdered,

roasted, seasoned, and salted)

Linseed meal and oilcake

Linseed oil

Liver and glandular meal

Lupulin

Macaroni and macaroni products

Malt, malt syrup, malt diastase, and baker’s malt

Margarine

Matzos (bread)

Mill feeds

Molasses for stock feed

Monosodium glutamate

Mustard seed

Neat’s foot oil

Noodles

Oats and oat products

Oilseed cakes, meals, and pellets

Oilseeds (except as otherwise assigned)

Oils (vegetable) (except for Section 32 activities)

Oleo oil

Peas, dry and products thereof (including dry soup mix, powdered, roasted, seasoned, 

and salted)

Pea meal

Peanut cake, meal, and flour
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Pearl barley

Peas, dried, including split peas

Popcorn

Protein feeds and concentrates

Pulp, beet, etc., used for animal fee

Rapeseed

Rice

Rice flour

Rye

Rye flour

Safflower meal

Safflower seed and products thereof

Salad oil (except olive oil and peanut oil)

Semolina

Shortening

Syrup and syrup products (major component from grain)

Soaps

Soap stock (foots)

Sorghum

Soups (dry mix, or powdered from dry grain or dry pulses)

Soy fortified bread flour

Soy fortified corn meal

Soy fortified rolled oats

Soy fortified sorghum grits

Soy protein concentrate

Soybean cake and meal

Soybean oil

Soybeans

Soybeans, roasted or salted

Soyflour and grits

Spaghetti

Starch from grain

Stearic acid

Stearines

Straw

Sulphonated fats, oils, and fatty acids

Sunflower seed

Sunflower seed oil

Sweetened wheat soy blend

Tankage, meat

Triticale

Vermicelli

Vitamins and vitamin products

Wheat

Wheat cereal

Wheat flour (white, whole wheat (graham))

Wheat soy blend

Yeast (active and inactive)

Yeast foods