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AMS Revises Voluntary Ginseng Standards

The Agricultural Marketing Service is revising the voluntary U.S. Standards for Grades of Cultivated Ginseng, effective May 7, 2012. To ensure the integrity of the Standards, the revisions will be based on quality and percentage defects. The new grades will…

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replace the current ones and promote the orderly and efficient marketing of ginseng. Other changes will include a revised General Section, new tolerances, reclassified sizes, removed table “values” and amended definitions.