---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 137.265"
title: "21"
number: "137.265"
heading: "Degerminated white corn meal."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/137.265"
---

# §137.265. Degerminated white corn meal.

- (a) Degerminated white corn meal, degermed white corn meal, is the food prepared by grinding cleaned white corn and removing bran and germ so that:
  - (1) On a moisture-free basis, its crude fiber content is less than 1.2 percent and its fat content is less than 2.25 percent; and
  - (2) When tested by the method prescribed in [§ 137.250(b)(2)](/cfr/21/137.250.md?p=b-2), except that a No. 20 standard sieve is used instead of a No. 12 sieve, not less than 95 percent passes through a No. 20 sieve, not less than 45 percent through a No. 25 sieve, but not more than 25 percent through No. 72 XXX grits gauze. Its moisture content is not more than 15 percent.
- (b) For the purposes of this section, moisture, fat and crude fiber are determined by methods therefor referred to in [§ 137.250(b)(1)](/cfr/21/137.250.md?p=b-1).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 341, 343, 348, 371, 379e.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 14402, Mar. 15, 1977, unless otherwise noted.