Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990)RegulationsRegulations relating to the Grading, Packing and Marking of Bread Wheat intended for sale in the Republic of South AfricaPart III : Sampling10. Sampling if contents differ |
| (1) | If, after an examination of the wheat taken from different bags in a consignment in terms of regulation 9(1)(a), it appears that the contents of those bags differ substantially— |
| (a) | the bags concerned shall be placed separately; |
| (b) | all the bags in the consignment concerned shall be sampled with a bag probe in order to do such separation; and |
| (c) | each group of bags with similar contents in that consignment shall for the purposes of these regulations be deemed to be a separate consignment. |
| (2) | If, after the discharge of a consignment of wheat in bulk has commenced, it is suspected that the consignment could be of a class or grade other than that determined by means of the initial sampling, the discharge shall immediately be stopped and the part of the consignment remaining in the bulk container as well as the wheat already in the hopper shall be sampled anew with a bulk sampling apparatus or by catching at least 20 samples, by means of a suitable container, at regular intervals throughout the whole offloading period from the stream of wheat flowing in bulk. |