California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 4 - Plant Industry
Chapter 2 - Field Crops
Subchapter 2 - Commercial Feed
Article 14 - Definitions and Standards
Section 2782 - Corn Products

(a) Corn Bran is the outer coating of the corn kernel, with little or none of the starchy part or germ.

(b) Corn Feed Meal is the fine siftings obtained in the manufacture of screened corn chop, screened ground corn, or screened cracked corn with or without its aspiration products added.

(c) Ground Corn, Corn Meal, Cracked Corn, Corn Chop is the entire product made by grinding, cutting, or chopping the grains of sound Indian corn, and may be fine, medium, or coarse, and contains not more than 4.0 percent of foreign material.

(d) Screened Corn Chop, Screened Ground Corn, or Screened Cracked Corn is the coarse portion of corn chop, ground corn, or cracked corn from which most of the fine particles have been removed, and contains not more than 4.0 percent of foreign material.

(e) Corn Grits or Hominy Grits is the fine or medium sized, hard, flinty portions of sound Indian corn and contains 5.0 percent or less of the bran or germ.

(f) Ear Corn Chops is corn and cob chopped, without the husk, with no greater proportion of cob than occurs in the ear corn in its natural state.

(g) Corn Gluten Meal is that part of commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. It may contain corn solubles and corn oil meal.

(h) Corn Gluten Feed is that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and germ by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. It may or may not contain fermented corn extractives or corn germ meal.

(i) Hominy Feed is a mixture of corn bran, corn germ, and a part of the starchy portion of either white or yellow corn kernels or mixture thereof as produced in the manufacture of pearl hominy, hominy grits, or table meal and contains not less than 4.0 percent crude fat. If prefixed with the words "white" or "yellow," the product must correspond thereto.

(j) Corn Germ Meal (Wet Milled) is ground corn germ from which most of the solubles have been removed by steeping and most of the oil removed by hydraulic, expeller, or solvent extraction processes, and is obtained in the wet milling process of manufacture of corn starch, corn syrup, or other corn products.

(k) Corn Germ Meal (Dry Milled) is ground corn germ which consists of corn germ with other parts of the corn kernel from which part of the oil has been removed and is the product obtained in the dry milling process of manufacture of corn meal, corn grits, hominy feed, and other corn products.