Section 2794 - Oat Products(a) Clipped Oat By-Product is obtained in the manufacture of clipped oats. It may contain the light chaffy material broken from the end of the hulls, empty hulls, light immature oats, and dust. It must not contain an excessive amount of oat hulls.(b) Feeding Oat Meal is obtained in the manufacture of rolled oat groats or rolled oats and consists of broken oat groats, oat groat chips, and floury portions of the oat groats, with only such quantity of finely ground oat hulls as is unavoidable in the usual process of commercial milling. It must not contain more than four (4) percent crude fiber.(c) Ground Oats, Pulverized Oats, Crushed Oats and Crimped Oats consist of the entire product made by grinding, cutting, crushing, or crimping whole oats. They shall contain not more than 10.0 percent of other grains, weed seeds, and other foreign material containing not more than 15.0 percent crude fiber.(d) Mixed Feed Oats consists of a mixture of grain containing at least 30 percent of cultivated oats provided that the mixture consists of either (a) not less than 65 percent of cultivated and wild oats combined or (b) not less than 65 percent of wild oats. It must contain more than 25 percent of other grains, not more than six (6) percent heat damaged kernels of oats, wild oats, and other grains, and not more than 10 percent foreign material which may include four (4) percent fine seeds. Foreign material must be all matter except wild oats and grains for which standards have been established under the United States Grain Standards Act.(e) Oat Fiber is obtained from oat hulls that have been processed through a continuous wet and dry process to modify soluble and insoluble fractions of the fiber, and to reduce the content of lignin. The ingredient must be guaranteed for neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, and acid insoluble lignin. Oat fiber is to be used as a source of insoluble fiber in animal feed.(f) Oat Groats are cleaned oats with the hulls removed.(g) Oat Hulls consists primarily of the outer covering of oats, obtained in the milling of table cereals or in the groating of oats from clean oats.(h) Oat Mill By-Product is the by-product obtained in the manufacture of oat groats, consisting of oat hulls, and particles of the groat, and containing not more than 25 percent crude fiber.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 3, § 2794
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407 and 14902, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 14992 and 15011, Food and Agricultural Code.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 407 and 14902, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 14992 and 15011, Food and Agricultural Code.
1. Editorial correction of NOTE filed 8-17-82 (Register 82, No. 34).
2. Amendment filed 1-30-2002; operative 1-30-2002 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(Register 2002, No. 5).
3. Repealer and new section heading and section filed 11-12-2024 as an emergency; operative 11/12/2024 (Register 2024, No. 46). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-12-2025 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.