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RICE ENRICHMENT
Pages 9-11

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... The premix was designed to be mixed at the rice mill with 199 times its own weight of ordinary white rice; the mixture provided the same levels of thiamine, niacin, and iron as does enriched flour in the United States. A requirement was that not less than 85 per cent of the nutrients be retained after a prescribed washing in cold water.
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... The excellent support the milling and baking industries have given to bread and flour enrichment in the United States is impossible in most countries. Rice enrichment is being initiated among the Chinese Nationalist Troops29 in Formosa.
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... "The Food and Nutrition Board recognizes that certain segments of the population of the United States consume substantial quantities of milled rice, and that the nutritional improvement of rice would substantially better the nutrient intakes of these people. The Board has endorsed this general principle in May 1949 and May 1952, and hereby reaffirms its position regarding the desirability of nutritional improvement of milled rice, and further requests the Food and Drug Administration to consider the early establishment of definitions of identity for nutritionally improved rice." Such action was taken by the Food and Drug Administration by publishing a proposal33 which permits enrichment without rinse protection provided the label bears a conspicuous warning against washing before cooking.
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