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 2791 - Oat Products

(a) Ground Oats, Pulverized Oats, Crushed Oats and Crimped Oats consist of the entire product made by grinding, cutting, crushing, or crimping whole oats. They shall contain not more than 10 percent of other grains, weed seeds, and other foreign material containing not more than 15 percent crude fiber.

(b) Oat Groats are cleaned oats with the hulls removed.

(c) Oat Hulls consist primarily of the outer covering of oats, obtained in the milling of table cereals or in the groating of oats from clean oats. When used in a mixture the maximum percentage shall be stated.

(d) Feeding Oat Meal is obtained in the manufacture of rolled oat groats, or rolled oats and consists of broken rolled oat groats, oat groat chips, and floury portions of the oat groats, with only such quantity of finely ground oat hulls resulting from good manufacturing process. It shall not contain more than 4 percent crude fiber.

(e) Clipped Oat By-Product is obtained in the manufacture of clipped oats. It may contain the light chaffy material broken from the end of the hulls, empty hulls, light immature oats, and dust. When used in a mixture the maximum percentage shall be stated.

(f) Oats shall contain a minimum of 80 percent sound cultivated oats and not more than 10 percent wild oats; 3 percent heat damaged kernels of oats, other grains, and wild oats; and 5 percent foreign material. It shall contain not more than 15 percent crude fiber. Foreign material includes all matter except cultivated oats, other grains, and wild oats, and includes oat clippings, and detached oat hulls.

(g) Mixed Feed Oats consists of a mixture of grains containing at least 30 percent cultivated oats; provided that the mixture consists of either (1) not less than 65 percent of cultivated and wild oats combined or (2) not less than 65 percent of wild oats. It shall contain more than 25 percent of other grains, not more than 6 percent heat damaged kernels of oats, wild oats, and other grains, and not more than 10 percent foreign material, which may include 4 percent fine seeds. Foreign material consists of all matter except wild oats and grains for which standards have been established under the United States Grain Standards Act.

(h) Oat Mill By-Product is the by-product obtained in the manufacture of oat groats, consisting of oat hulls, and particles of the groat, and containing not more than 22 percent crude fiber. When used in a mixture the maximum percentage shall be stated.