Nov 16, 2017 | Food Safety, Rice Milling, Technical
Food safety standards are usually pretty commonplace in factories or plants that specialize in cooked foots, meat processing, and dairy. Recently, however, our newest rice mill installation became AA rated BRC Certified which is fairly foreign to most of our...
Oct 12, 2016 | Wednesday Spotlight, ZaccariaUSA
A whiteness meter is used in the rice milling industry to let the operator know that they are milling rice to the optimum quality that the customer is demanding. Why is this important? As you whiten a rice kernel with an abrasive stone, you are wearing off layers of...
Oct 10, 2016 | Self Help, ZaccariaUSA
Columbus Day has always been on the second Monday of October and traditionally celebrates the discovery that Christopher Columbus made in 1492 after he sailed the ocean blue. We all know that he “discovered” the Americas and it is a Federal Holiday that...
Oct 5, 2016 | Rice Milling Equipment, Technical, Water Polisher, Wednesday Spotlight
Why should a water polisher be installed in a rice production line? It’s true that not every production line has a water polisher installed. I’ve seen some of the simplest production lines without a water polisher all the way up to sophisticated lines...
Sep 7, 2016 | Rice Milling Equipment
Welcome to the second part of On Farm Rice Milling Basics- Part 2. For those of you who missed the first article, you can get to it by clicking Farm Milling Basics Part 1. If you recall, in the first article we spoke about Pre-Cleaning, the use of magnets, and...
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