United States Standards for Grades of Frozen Cauliflower

The purpose of this final rule is to revise the current voluntary U.S. Standards for Grades of Frozen Cauliflower. This rule was developed by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) at the request of the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) and the National Food Processors Association (NFPA). Its effect will be to improve the standards by: bringing the standards in line with current marketing practices and innovations in processing techniques; providing for the ``individual attributes'' procedure for product grading with sample sizes, acceptable quality levels (AQL's), tolerances and acceptance numbers (number of allowable defects) being published in the standards; replacing dual grade nomenclature with single letter grade designations, such as ``U.S. Grade A'' or ``U.S. Fancy,'' with ``U.S. Grade A;'' and providing a uniform format consistent with other recently revised U.S. grade standards by adopting definitions for terms and replacing textual descriptions with easy-to-read tables. This rule also includes conforming and editorial changes.