7 CFR 51.1877 – Classification of defects
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Factor | Damage | Serious damage | Very serious damage |
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Cuts and broken skins | Not shallow or not well healed, or shallow, well healed cut more than | Not shallow or not well healed, or shallow, well healed cut more than | Fresh or healed and extending through the tomato wall. |
Puffiness | Open space in 1 or more locules materially detracts from appearance of tomato cut through center at right angles to a line from stem to blossom end | Open space in 1 or more locules seriously detracts from appearance of tomato cut through center at right angles to a line from stem to blossom end | Open space in 2 or more locules very seriously detracts from appearance of tomato cut through center at right angles to a line from stem to blossom end. |
Catfaces | Scars are rough or deep, channels are very deep or wide, channels extend into a locule, or a fairly smooth catface aggregating more than a circle | Scars are rough or deep, channels are very deep or wide, channels extend into a locule, or a fairly smooth catface aggregating more than a circle | Channels extend into the locule, wall has been weakened to the extent that slight pressure will cause a tomato to leak, or a fairly smooth catface aggregating more than a circle 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter. |
Scars (other than catfaces) | No depth and aggregating more than a circle | No depth and aggregating more than a circle | No depth and aggregating more than a circle 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter. |
Growth cracks (radiating from or concentric to stem scar) | Not well healed, more than | Not well healed, more than | Not well healed, more than |
Hail | Deep, rough, not well healed and corked over, or fairly smooth, shallow hailmarks aggregating more than a circle | Deep, rough, not well healed and corked over, or fairly smooth, shallow hailmarks aggregating more than a circle | Fresh, very deep or fairly smooth, shallow hailmarks aggregating more than a circle 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter. |
Insect injury | Materially detracts from the appearance of any insect is present in the fruit | Seriously detracts from the appearance of any insect is present in the fruit | Very seriously detracts from the appearance of any insect is present in the fruit. |
1 Conversion to metric equivalent, made to nearest whole millimeter.