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Flavored milk is described as a subclass of fluid - packaged milks, to which flavoring has been added, such as chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.

Field corn is characterized as a corn that is grown to be used to feed livestock, used to make ethanol, or used in making food products. It does not have the sweet pleasant taste like sweet corn which is planted for human consumption.

Fiberglass described as the most familiar type of insulation. It is spun from molten glass, and is pure white in its virgin state.

Flat-rolled products refer to aluminum plate, sheet or foil products made by passing ingot through pairs of rolls.

Fermented and renneted milk products (plain), excluding food category 01.1.2 (dairy -based drinks) (01.2) -includes all plain products based on skim, part-skim, low-fat and whole milk.

Fusel oil refers to a term used to describe the higher alcohols, generally the various forms of propanol, butanol and amyl alcohol, which are congeners, or by-products of ethanol fermentation.

A carrier that collects small shipments from shippers, consolidates the small shipments and uses a basic mode to transport these consolidated shipments to a destination where the freight forwarder delivers the shipment to the consignee.

Forest type is described as the associations of tree species that have similar ecological requirements. Forest types include hardwood, loblolly-shortleaf, northern hardwood, oak-gum-cypress, oak hickory, and oak-pine, softwoods, etc.