AMS Amends US Grade Standards for Canned Vegetables

The Agricultural Marketing Service is amending 18 U.S. Standards for canned vegetables to simplify the names of grade standards, it said in a notice (here). Rather than have two names for every grade, such as “U.S. Grade A” or “U.S. Fancy,” each of the standards will now only be referred to by the letter grade, i.e., “U.S. Grade A,” “U.S. Grade B” and “U.S. Grade C.” AMS is making the change, which takes effect Jan. 20, in standards for canned asparagus, beets, carrots, chili sauce, cream-style corn, hominy, leafy greens, okra, okra and tomatoes, onions, peas and carrots, field and black-eyed peas, pimientos, pumpkin, sauerkraut, spinach, summer squash and succotash.