Poor rice quality contributes to $3.39bn losses
summary：Rice quality issues contribute to $3.39bn a year at least in global costs to the food industry from rice waste, significantly boosting the importance of quality testing....
That's according to John Bogart, managing director of US measurement instrumentation specialist Kett.Estimating wastage at 1%, annual rice production of 678m tonnes (2009 figures, 'World, Wheat, Corn & Rice' report, Oklahoma State University, FAOSTAT), Bogart said scrapping rice because of quality issues would cost $3.39bn annually.
And this was based purely on statistics for plain, non-value added, rice he told this site.
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