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Article: Nuts & nutmeats.(Markets)
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- The Food Institute Report
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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PISTACHIOS--USDA issued a final rule, effective Sept. 22, 2003, that revises the U.S. Standards for Grades of Pistachio Nuts in the Shell and the U.S. Standards for Grades of Shelled Pistachio Nuts, noted the Federal Register (Aug. 22).
The revisions will modify the standards to more closely align grade names with other tree-nut commodities and current industry-recognized marketing terms, reduce the tolerance for internal defects for the purpose of providing a higher degree of quality assurance, relax tolerances of the level of light stain on the shell in the various grade levels based on consumer preferences, more objectively define when nuts are damaged by ...