NutraCea (NTRZ.OB) Receives USDA Approval for the Use of Stabilized Rice Bran
The Food Safety Inspection Service, a subsidiary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has approved NutraCea’s stabilized rice bran as an enhancer for food companies that prepare comminuted meat and poultry products; that is, as a binder for poultry sausages, nugget-shaped patties, meatballs, meatloaf, and meat and poultry patties. NutraCea focuses on processing and distributing stabilized rice bran and other proprietary, rice bran-based ingredients and formulations. Rice bran, including the germ, is the outer layer of the brown rice kernel after the husk has been removed. Until recently, the bran and germ were an under-utilized byproduct of the…