United States Standards: Beans

Docket Number: AMS–FGIS–21–0009
Effective Date: August 26, 2021

Summary

This action is being taken under the authority of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended, (AMA). The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is adding the new criterion, Cotyledon Damage, in the Bean Inspection Handbook pertaining to the class chickpea/garbanzo beans in the U.S. Standards for Beans. Stakeholders in the dry bean processing/handling industry requested AMS to revise the Bean Inspection Handbook to include the criterion for the new damage factor, Cotyledon Damage, in chickpeas/garbanzo beans.

Contact

Loren Almond, USDA AMS; Telephone: (816) 702-3925; email: Loren.L.Almond@usda.gov.

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