Authorised Officers are to ensure that the representative samples are free of live injurious insects, stones, glasses and animal carcasses.

Exporters are to be alarmed for tolerance being above the allowed limit for the following without rejecting the consignment:

• Screenings

AND

• insect damaged and broken grains

Exporters are to be aware that Lebanon applies following tolerance for various insects and contaminants:

Tolerances	Wheat (Triticum spp) Specific weight: 650g/L	Maize (Zea mays) Specific weight: 670g/L	Barley (Hordeum spp) Specific weight: 625g/L
Maximum amount pass through various sizes screens after 40 shakes	15% Sieve size: 2 mm	5% Sieve size: 4.75 mm	16% Sieve size: 2.2 mm
Tolerance for dead insects and snails in one litre sample	20	20	20
Tolerance for live insects	Nil	Nil	Nil
Tolerance for stones, glass and animal carcasses	Nil	Nil	Nil
Tolerance for insect damaged grains	-	5/200 g	-
Tolerance for broken grains	-	10% in a sample of 200 grams	-