Cleaning

Cleaning · A quality-control gate, not a cosmetic step

Cleaning removes material that increases contamination risk and process instability. It is a quality-control gate — what passes through cleaning is what your process has to work with.

What Cleaning Should Remove

Material	Why It Must Be Removed
Foreign material and dockage	Harbors moisture, mold, and contamination risk that spreads to clean grain in storage and handling
Broken kernels likely to degrade during storage	Damaged grain oxidizes and degrades faster — it elevates defect load and introduces variability
Material that disrupts handling, milling, or separation	Oversized or misshapen material creates equipment stress and inconsistent particle size in milling

Decision Note

Inadequate cleaning raises both operational risk and measurement noise in intake testing. If you are cleaning poorly, your intake data is describing the cleaned fraction — not the lot.