CLANAE 10.612—Rice preparation

Where 10.612 sits

1. C Manufacturing industry
2. 10 Food product manufacturing
3. 10.6 Production of milling products, starches and starch derivatives
4. 10.61 Milling product manufacturing
5. 10.612 Rice preparation

What 10.612 includes

• Polished or white rice refers to rice grains without the pericarp (husk). Pearled or glazed rice is rice without the pericarp that is polished with oil, glucose, and/or talc. Broken rice is rice whose grains are broken and whose size is at least 50% of the whole grain. "Arrocín" or "arrotín" refers to rice whose grains are broken and whose size is less than 50% of the whole grain; it is mixed with the flour that separates during the polishing or glazing process. The most common types of rice are: long or double Carolina, with characteristics similar to the Fortuna variety; long fine, similar to the Blue Bonnet variety; medium or medium Carolina, similar to the Blue Rose variety; and short or Japanese, similar to the Yamaní variety. Quality is assigned by a number of zeros based on the degree of defects present; the more zeros, the better the quality.
• Rice milling: husking, milling, polishing, whitening, semi-cooking, or processing.
• Rice flour production.
• Rice drying when carried out at the industrial facility.
• Rice starch production.

What 10.612 excludes

• Rice drying when carried out on the farm (subclass 01.111 or class 01.61).

10.612 in other systems