Tests for Grading and Quality Factors
Inspection Services
- Original Inspection (white certificate)
- Submitted sample (pink certificate)
- Warehouseman inspection (yellow certificate)
- Reinspections
- Appeal inspections
Other Grain Tests
- Aflatoxin
- Vomitoxin (qualitative)
- Vomitoxin (quantitative)
- Waxy corn (per test)
- Corn Oil, Protein and Starch
- Falling Number (Wheat)
- Mycotoxin Analyses (Aflatoxin)
- Mycotoxin Analyses (DON)
- Mycotoxin Analyses (Zearalenone)
- Mycotoxin Analyses (Fumonisin)
- Pesticide Residue Analysis
- Soybean Protein and Oil
- Sunflower Oil
- Wet Gluten (PDF; 149Kb)
- Wheat Hardness
- Wheat Protein
- Cracked Corn Inspection
Other Commodity Tests
- Sampling
- Lots sampled online during loading
- Truck/trailer/container
- Railcar (per carrier)
- Barge (per carrier)
- Sacked grain
Weighing Services
- Class X weighting
- Class Y Weighing
- Scale Testing services
- Scale testing and certification
- Evaluation of weighing and material handling systems
- Mass standards calibration and re-verification
Stowage Examination Services
- Stowage examination (service on request)
- Ships
- Subsequent ship examinations
- Barge
- All other carriers
Other Services
- Interpretive line samples
- Rapid Test Kit Development Verification Service
- NTEP prototype evaluation (other than Railroad Track Scales)
- NTEP prototype evaluation (Railroad Track Scales)
- Grain grading seminars
- Certification of diverter-type mechanical samplers
- International services
- Online customized data EGIS service
- Samples provided to interested parties
- Extra copies of certificates
Laboratory tests
- Aflatoxin test (Quantitative - HPLC)
- Aflatoxin (Quantitative - Test Kit)
- Aflatoxin (Qualitative - Test Kit)
- Appearance and odor
- Ash
- Brix
- Calcium
- Carotenoid color
- Cold test (oil)
- Color test (syrups)
- Cooking test (pasta)
- Crude fat
- Crude fiber
- Falling number
- Free fatty acid
- Insoluble impurities (oils and shortenings)
- Iron enrichment
- Lovibond color
- Moisture
- Moisture and volatile matter
- Oxidative stability index (OSI)
- Peroxide value
- Popping ratio
- Protein
- Sanitation (filth light)
- Sieve test
- Smoke point
- Solid fat index
- Visual exam
- Vomitoxin (Qualitative - Test Kit)
- Vomitoxin (Quantitative - Test Kit)
Laboratory Working Instructions
- Cooked Bostwick Method - Corn Soy Blend (PDF; 25Kb)
- Determination of Vitamin A as Retinyl Palmitate in Processed-Grain Commodities (PDF; 344Kb)
- Determination of Iron in Cereal Grains and Seed Oils by Flame AA (PDF; 335Kb)
- Sieve Method - Corn Soy Blend (PDF; 11Kb)
- Uncooked Bostwick Method - Corn Soy Blend (PDF; 32Kb)
Miscellaneous Processed Commodities
- Falling Number
- Aflatoxin - Non Field Run
Graded Commodities (Beans, Peas, Lentils, Hops, and Pulses)
- Field Run (per lot or sample)
- Other Than Field Run
- Factor Analysis