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AMS Amends Grade Standards for Processed Raisins

The Agricultural Marketing Service is amending its standards for grades of processed raisins to reduce the number of capstems allowed as defects, it said in a final rule released Oct. 16. The final rule adopts unchanged a proposal issued in…

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March (see 2303080033), in which AMS said a study indicated the change would have affected grades for only 1.03% of all domestic and import inspections from 2016 to 2019. The changes take effect Nov. 16.