Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990)

Regulations

Purchase

(1)	Where used specifically with regard to canned sweet corn

(a)	"blemished kernel" means a kernel affected by a lesion due to insects or diseases, or of an abnormal colour (excluding grilled kernels);

(b)	"Tom Kernel" means a sweet corn kernel to which a piece of cob or hard matter adheres; and

(c)	"Silks" means a long, shiny, thread-like strands of plant material, weak fibres that grow as part of ears of sweet corn; the tuft or tassel of silky fibers that protrude from the tip of the ear of sweet corn.