USA: Standard for Raisins

The US Agricultural Marketing Service has opened a comment period on a recommendation by the Raisin Administrative Committee to the remove the term “midget” from the minimum grade standards of the California raisin marketing order.Recently, the U.S. Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins were amended to remove the word “midget” (here). Thus, the proposed change would make the marketing order consistent with the amended standards.The deadline for comments is October 17, 2016.Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 180. Friday, September 16, 2016. Page 63723-63725.