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WASHINGTON - The
U.S. Department of
Agriculture wants to know
what consumers think of a
proposal to simplify grade
standards for frozen green
and wax beans and to revise
the way their grades are
determined.
Comments on the proposal
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will be accepted until Sept.
30, 1981, according to
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman.
The proposal would also
revise the grade standard to
conform with USDA’s policy
of uniform grade nomen
clature, Foreman said.
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Under that policy, single
letter grades U.S. Grades A,
B and C would replace the
dual nomenclature of U.S.
Grade A (U.S. Fancy), B
(Extra Standard) and C
(Standard). Moreover, the
proposal provides that bean
“character”—it’s ten
derness, firmness and
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maturity—be considered
separately from other
“classified defects,” or
flaws such as blemishes or
mechanical damage, in
determining the grade of
frozen green and wax beans.
In addition, separate
definitions for character
requirements would be given
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for frozen wax beans and
green beans.
Because color is normally
associated with maturity,
the proposal will eliminate
color as a separate quality
requirement, Foreman said.
However, brightness will be
retained as a quality factor.
The proposal would
provide separate quality
requirements for multi
blanched and regular beans.
Multi-blanched beans are
pre-cooked for special packs
and therefore need different
quality requirements,
Foreman said.
“Currently graders
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the dryer is working great and that the family has
dried large quanities of sweet corn recently. The
only problem they encountered with the innovative
structure is that the heat directly above the stove
scorched the corn, so they now place vegetables
only on the sides of the screen.
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examine lots after
processing has been com
pleted,” Foreman said.
“Under the proposal,
graders may examine a lot
at various stages during
processing to determine
whether it meets a specific
grade. This proposal would
give them an additional
separate sampling
procedure to determine
grade.”
Comments may be sent
until Sept. 30, 1981, to
executive secretariat, Attn:
Annie Johnson, room 3807-S,
FSQS, USDA, Washington,
D.C., 20250.