Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990)

Regulations

Regulations relating to the Grading, Packing and Marking of Bread Wheat intended for sale in the Republic of South Africa

Part V : Determination of Class, Hectolitre Mass, Moisture Content, Protein Content and Falling Number

13. Determination of class

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The class of a consignment of wheat shall be determined as follows:

(a) Obtain a working sample of at least 500 g and screen the working sample in the manner prescribed in regulation 18.
(b) Take at least 100 g of the screened wheat and remove all other grain, unthreshed ears and foreign matter by hand.
(c) Obtain a working sample of at least 25 g each after all other grain, unthreshed ears and foreign matter have been removed and separate the different cultivars.
(d) Determine the combined mass of all of the cultivars that belong to the same class and express the mass thus determined as a percentage of the mass of the working sample.
(e) Such percentage represents the percentage of all the cultivars that belong to the same class in the consignment.