Milling Journal - Q2 2008 - (Page 41) NutraCea Expanding Market growing for rice bran ingredients NutraCea Inc., a provider of rice bran products, is building new facilities and adding staff in Arizona and Brazil. President and CEO Brad Edson announced in May that the Phoeniz, AZ-based processor and distributor of stabilized rice bran and ingredients (602-522-3000) is increasing capacity at its new facility in Pelotas, Brazil. Once it becomes fully operational in the fourth quarter of this year, he said it will add 70,000 tons of capacity to the company’s operations. That statement follows a March announcement that the company had purchased a 124,000-square-foot production facility in west Phoenix, AZ that eventually will produce 10,000 tons of valueadded products made from stabilized rice bran. Another new NutraCea plant in Lake Charles, LA, is expected to produce 30,000 tons a year, Edson said. Demand Increasing “In the past five years, NutraCea has increased its total production more than tenfold from 10,000 tons in 2005 to keep up with industry demand,” said Edson. The company has seven U.S. patents on technology that takes discarded rice bran, which typically goes rancid very quickly, and turns it into a flourlike nutritional product that lasts up to a year. FSIS Approval NutraCea announced May 22 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has approved its stabilized rice bran as an enhancer for food companies that prepare comminuted meat and poultry products including meat and poultry sausages that contain binders, meatballs, meatloaf, and meat and poultry patties. Frank Zaworski, editor Response No. 411 Response No. 412 MILLING JOURNAL Second Quarter 2008 41 http://www.bealldeg.com http://www.bealldeg.com
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