| Physical Characteristics |
Good colour lentils: Split lentils having a clean and bright appearance. The lentils shall be milled from hard and well-filled whole red lentil seed. |
| Purity |
99.70% min. by weight |
Split lentils, whole Lentils and caps... |
| Moisture |
8% max |
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| Foreign Material |
0.25% max by weight |
Unmillable material (i.e. includes soil, stones, metals and non-vegetable matter) and all vegetable matter other than Lentil seed material including detached seed coats.... |
| Poor colour |
0.25% max by weight |
Kernel that is distinctly off colour from the characteristic colour of the predominating class. Includes lentils that are brown, black, green and / or yellow. |
| Chalky white disease |
0.25% max by weight |
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| Caps |
0.25% max by weight |
Caps are those seed coats adhering to split or broken see measured as a combined weight.... |
| Dehulled whole lentils |
3% max by weight |
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| Broken and /or kibble lentils |
3% max by weight |
Lentil seed material that passes through a round hole screen. Northfield = 2.87mm; all other varieties - 3mm |
| Screen size |
Northfield = 2.80mm round hole |
Lentil material broken or kibble if falls through. |
| All other varieties 3 mm round hole |
| Field insects |
Nil tolerance |
Dead per 200 G sample! |
| Foreign seeds |
2 cereal s |
