7 CFR § 51.713 - Classification of defects.
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§ 51.713 Classification of defects.
All references to area or aggregate area, or length in this standard are based on an orange 2 7/8 inches in diameter, allowing proportionately greater areas on larger fruit and lesser areas on smaller fruit.
Table 1 to § 51.713
Factor | Injury | Damage | Serious damage | Very serious damage |
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Ammoniation | Not occurring as light speck type | Scars are cracked or dark and aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. | |
Buckskin | Aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface | Aggregating more than 50 percent of the surface. | |
Caked melanose | Aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. | ||
Creasing | Materially weakens the skin, or extends over more than one-third of the surface | Seriously weakens the skin, or extends over more than one-half of the surface | Very seriously weakens the skin, or is distributed over practically the entire surface. | |
Dryness or mushy condition | Affecting all segments more than
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Affecting all segments more than
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Affecting all segments more than
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Green spots or oil spots | More than slightly affecting appearance | Aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than a circle 1
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Hail | Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
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Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
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Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
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Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
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Scab | Materially detracts from the shape or texture, or aggregating more than a circle
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Seriously detracts from the shape or texture, or aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. | |
Scale | More than a few adjacent to the “button” at the stem end, or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit | Aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. |
Scars | Depressed, not smooth, or detracts from appearance more than the amount of discoloration permitted in the grade | Deep, rough or hard aggregating more than a circle
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Deep, rough aggregating more than a circle
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Deep, rough or unsightly that appearance is very seriously affected. |
Skin breakdown | Aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. | |
Sunburn | Skin is flattened, dry, darkened or hard, aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface | Affecting more than one-third of the surface, hard, decidedly one-sided, or light brown and aggregating more than a circle 1
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Aggregating more than 50 percent of the surface. | |
Sprayburn | Hard, or aggregating more than a circle 1
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. | ||
Split, rough or protruding navels | Split is unhealed; navel protrudes beyond general contour; opening is so wide, growth so folded and ridged that it detracts noticeably from appearance | Split is unhealed, or more than
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Split is unhealed, or more than
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Split is unhealed or fruit is seriously weakened. |
Thorn scratches | Not slight, not well healed, or more unsightly than discoloration permitted in the grade | Not well healed, or hard concentrated thorn injury aggregating more than a circle
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Not well healed, or hard concentrated thorn injury aggregating more than a circle
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Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. |
[85 FR 68428, Oct. 29, 2020]