HELEN RICE FLAKES
	stages / storage time / characteristics / packaging

The production process of AS Sangaste Linnas is fully automatized. High technology machinery of German origin is used. In the production process utmost attention is paid to quality and cleanliness and this is done in every stage of production.

All products of AS Sangaste Linnas have been made from natural grain, no additional substances have been added to the products.

Buckwheat grown in Ukraine is used as raw material. All products have "HELEN" brand name.

"HELEN" rice flakes comprise 100% rice flakes.

"The production of "HELEN" rice flakes has been divided into four stages:
    1. preliminary cleaning
    2. peeling
    3. sorting
    4. packaging

During the entire production process the grain moves in closed hermetical piping, hence preventing dust from getting into the production rooms or the surrounding environment. All equipment in the production process is connected to the dust filters, which remove the dust generated at the processing.

From the collection station the grain is transported with the help of a pneumatic conveyor into a pre-cleaning cyclone, where the light particles are sucked out. After that the grain moves to the coarse cleaning screen, where weed and cornstalks will be removed and then on to the stone-removing machine. Then the grain passes through the sorter. Thin grain is sorted out, it will be grinded and then used as fodder.

In the steam tower the processed corn will be heated to 104 degrees for 1 hour. After that the heated corn will be crushed into flakes in a roller machine. The hot and damp flakes go into a dryer, where they are dried with a help of hot air and after that cooled with cold air. The dried and cooled flakes go to the sorter, where low quality flakes are removed on the basis of size.

The clean and high quality end product is with the help of a bucket elevator transported into a packing machine, where the flakes are packed into 500 gram cartons and marked with the "expiry" date. The boxes move along the line to the packaging machine, which packages the boxes by 14 pieces into plastic and after that pushes them on to the thermo tunnel. As a result of 180- degree temperature plastic tightly covers the block. After exiting from the thermo tunnel the cooled down blocks are placed on wooden pallets.


Provided pallets:

1. by 14 pieces in plastic, 500g in a box, 840 boxed on a pallet (weight:420kg)
2. by 14 pieces in plastic, 500g in a box, 280 boxes on a pallet (weight:140kg)
3. 20kg in sacks, 40 sacks on a pallet (weight: 800kg)

The storage time of "HELEN" rice flakes is 9 months from the date of production, which is based on a durability test, report no.

Table of "HELEN" quick cook oat flakes with the limit characteristic parameters:

1. organoleptic

name of the parameter	characterization
colour	white
scent	characteristic to rice flakes, without the scent of mould, must or any other side scent
taste	characteristic to rice flakes, without a bitter or any other side taste

2. physical-chemical

name of the parameter	norm
moisture ( %)	not over 12,0
metal additives ( mg/kg)	3,0
infection ( pc/kg)	not allowed
acidity	not over 5,0
scrap additive content ( %)	not over 0,4
including:
mineral additive ( %)	not over 0,03
organic additive ( %))	not over 0,03
weed seeds ( %)	not over 0,05
spoiled corn ( %)	not over
chaff ( %)	not over 0,30
residuum ( %)	not over 2,1
boiling until soft (min)	2-3

Notice: the parameters residuum and boiling until soft are guarantee parameters and are determined periodically, but not on less frequently than once per half a year.