California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 2 - Field Crops › Subchapter 2 - Commercial Feed › Article 14 - Definitions and Standards › Section 2791 - Oat Products

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 Ground Oats, Pulverized Oats, Crushed Oats and Crimped Oats consist of the
					 entire product made by grinding, cutting, crushing, or crimping whole oats.
					 They shall contain not more than 10 percent of other grains, weed seeds, and
					 other foreign material containing not more than 15 percent crude
					 fiber.
(b) Oat Groats are cleaned
					 oats with the hulls removed.
(c)
					 Oat Hulls consist primarily of the outer covering of oats, obtained in the
					 milling of table cereals or in the groating of oats from clean oats. When used
					 in a mixture the maximum percentage shall be stated.
(d) Feeding Oat Meal is obtained in the
					 manufacture of rolled oat groats, or rolled oats and consists of broken rolled
					 oat groats, oat groat chips, and floury portions of the oat groats, with only
					 such quantity of finely ground oat hulls resulting from good manufacturing
					 process. It shall not contain more than 4 percent crude fiber.
(e) Clipped Oat By-Product is obtained in the
					 manufacture of clipped oats. It may contain the light chaffy material broken
					 from the end of the hulls, empty hulls, light immature oats, and dust. When
					 used in a mixture the maximum percentage shall be stated.
(f) Oats shall contain a minimum of 80
					 percent sound cultivated oats and not more than 10 percent wild oats; 3 percent
					 heat damaged kernels of oats, other grains, and wild oats; and 5 percent
					 foreign material. It shall contain not more than 15 percent crude fiber.
					 Foreign material includes all matter except cultivated oats, other grains, and
					 wild oats, and includes oat clippings, and detached oat hulls.
(g) Mixed Feed Oats consists of a mixture of
					 grains containing at least 30 percent cultivated oats; provided that the
					 mixture consists of either (1) not less than 65 percent of cultivated and wild
					 oats combined or (2) not less than 65 percent of wild oats. It shall contain
					 more than 25 percent of other grains, not more than 6 percent heat damaged
					 kernels of oats, wild oats, and other grains, and not more than 10 percent
					 foreign material, which may include 4 percent fine seeds. Foreign material
					 consists of all matter except wild oats and grains for which standards have
					 been established under the United States Grain Standards Act.
(h) Oat Mill By-Product is the by-product
					 obtained in the manufacture of oat groats, consisting of oat hulls, and
					 particles of the groat, and containing not more than 22 percent crude fiber.
					 When used in a mixture the maximum percentage shall be stated.
1.
						Editorial correction of NOTE filed 8-17-82 (Register 82, No. 34).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  407
						  and
						  14902,
						  Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
						  14992
						  and
						  15011,
						  Food and Agricultural Code.