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[296903] Legal control of moisture meter for cereal, grains and oilseeds in Brazil
Autores: Bruno Amado Rodrigues Filho, Rafael Feldmann Farias, Fábio Nakashima, Luiz Yassuhiro Kanzaki
Resumo: Soybean, corn, rice, bean and coffee are commodities that represent an important role in the Brazilian economy, performing USD 60 billion only in exports in 2022. Consequently, moisture measurement for cereal, grains and oilseed has a key role in the commodities market for the national economy once its moisture influences the monetary value of the grains. Moisture meter regulation was first released in Brazil in 2013 and a quality infrastructure for the legal control is being settled. The current scenario shows an increasing number of both initial and subsequent verification, as well as the number of repairers, totalizing, in 2022, 1472 initial verifications, 506 subsequent verifications, 10 verification laboratories, 20 repairers and 2 manufacturers. The main challenge now remains in an alternative to the reference method for verifications, as it is a bottleneck for production processes and there are logistics issues for moisture meters in agricultural areas far from verification laboratories. Moreover, a moisture meter as a working standard is under study as a method for verifications.