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Wednesday,01/04/2009 - 14:33
Technology Improves Peanut Grading
Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) scientists at the National Peanut Research Laboratory have developed a new technology that improves peanut grading.
According to USDA-ARS, researchers have found that using x-ray technology to grade peanuts performed a 98-99% accuracy rate, and was faster than official peanut-grading methods—7 minutes vs. 20 minutes per sample.The National Peanut Research Laboratory has developed an automated method for moisture detection in peanuts in-shell using radio frequency. Together with the x-ray grading technology, peanut processors may solve many of their issues. www.ars.usda.gov
(According to www.nutfruit.org)
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