Grain Based Products (Flour Milling)

Flour milling is the art of grain cleaning, processing, grading, blending, and distribution. The Harvest, transport, storage, and handling equipment also represents sources of potential microbiological contamination. These contaminations can be removed through a complex milling process. Flour milling at commercial and household/farm levels operating to produce different types of flour requirements. The final processing may take place through additional industrial processing, including bakery mix-manufacturing or final preparation of mixes or ingredients in a restaurant or at home. These preliminary observations and data indicate that flour microbial contamination is indeed associated primarily with surface contamination of the wheat kernel. The flour milling industry can play an important role in the production of fortified flour, which is considered as number 1 source of overcoming micronutrient deficiency in people’s diet