Manufacturing flour comes with the risk of dust explosion. Various dusts can catch fire and explode, in certain conditions. It’s a risk taken very seriously by the industry, as it has caused terrible accidents in history, at mills and in packing factories for instance.
Plastic bags can create static electricity discharge, which can ignite flour dust and cause explosions.
What can’t cause static electricity discharge is paper. So paper bags it is.
Manufacturing flour comes with the risk of dust explosion. Various dusts can catch fire and explode, in certain conditions. It’s a risk taken very seriously by the industry, as it has caused terrible accidents in history, at mills and in packing factories for instance.
Plastic bags can create static electricity discharge, which can ignite flour dust and cause explosions.
What can’t cause static electricity discharge is paper. So paper bags it is.
So why do some flours come in plastic bags? Sounds like a manufacturing improvement that “they” don’t want to spend money on.
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“Why does everything have to come in plastic? Something something petrochemicals, something something microplastics. Bring back the paper bags.”