Fababeans – Chapter 21
Official Grain Grading Guide

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Export shipments

Shipments can be commercially clean or not commercially clean.

Commercially clean

Dockage is not reported for commercially clean shipments. A deduction for finely broken fababeans removed by the No. 8 slotted sieve as dockage is allowed

• On shipments not for direct export, of up to 0.75%
• On shipments for direct export, of up to 1.0%

Definition of commercial cleanliness, Fababeans

Grade name	Foreign material
	Material passing through No. 8 slotted sieve, including handpicked material %	Total %
No. 1 Canada	0.1	0.2
No. 2 Canada	0.1	0.2
No. 3 Canada	0.1	0.2

Not commercially clean (NCC)

Shipments that do not meet the standards for commercial cleanliness are referred to as not commercially clean. Such shipments are permitted only with the permission of the CGC.

For samples representing not commercially clean shipments approved by the CGC for shipment from terminal and transfer elevators, dockage is reported to the nearest

• 0.1% for samples representing commercially clean shipments loaded from a single terminal or transfer elevator
• 0.01% for composite samples representing shipments loaded from more than one terminal or transfer elevator

less a direct deduction of up to 0.2% to take into account the buildup of attritional material.

Grading

Where no export standards exist, fababeans on export are graded in accordance with primary grade standards.

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