---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 810.1005"
title: "7"
number: "810.1005"
heading: "Special grades and special grade requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/810.1005"
---

# §810.1005. Special grades and special grade requirements.

- (a) **Bleached oats.** Oats that in whole or in part, have been treated with sulfurous acid or any other bleaching agent.
- (b) **Bright oats.** Oats, except bleached oats, that are of good natural color.
- (c) **Ergoty oats.** Oats that contain more than 0.10 percent ergot.
- (d) **Extra-heavy oats.** Oats that have a test weight per bushel of 40 pounds or more.
- (e) **Garlicky oats.** Oats that contain 4 or more green garlic bulblets or an equivalent quantity of dry or partly dry bulblets in 500 grams of oats.
- (f) **Heavy oats.** Oats that have a test weight per bushel of 38 pounds or more but less than 40 pounds.
- (g) **Smutty oats.** Oats that have kernels covered with smut spores to give a smutty appearance in mass, or that contain more than 0.2 percent of smut balls.
- (h) **Thin oats.** Oats that contain more than 20.0 percent of oats and other matter, except fine seeds, that pass through a 0.064 × 3/8 oblong-hole sieve but remain on top of a 5/64 triangular-hole sieve after sieving according to procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions.

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, as amended at 52 FR 24441, June 30, 1987]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71-87k.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987, as amended at 52 FR 24441, June 30, 1987]