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I know there is a lot of fake news in this day of internet journalism. There is no check on the authenticity of the reports.
People want to create a buzz or put themselves in the media, so they invent 'news'. We must guard against perpetuating a falsehood.
The following report is from Indonesia but may apply to other countries as well.


Unwholesome claims: Police officers show samples of rice thought to contain plastic during a media briefing at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Monday. Police have stopped investigations into the allegedly synthetic rice due to a lack of evidence.

The Jakarta Police have said they have halted an investigation into rice that had been claimed to contain dangerous plastics, as laboratory results had shown the rice samples contained no such materials.

Jakarta Police special crime director Sr. Comr. Mujiyono said on Monday that based on an examination conducted by the National Police central forensics laboratory (Puslabfor), the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM), and the Agriculture Ministry'€™s research and development unit (Balitbang), the police had concluded that the allegations were erroneous.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/11/03/police-claim-test-results-show-plastic-rice-just-a-hoax.html
 
My god . u don’t even have the basic knowledge of science and especially plastics. There is no such thing as plastic rice …i.e rice made from the same material as polythene.. Yes there is rice which is plastic .. But made from bio plastic like starch which is naturally present in corn maize and potatoes but NOT plastic derived from petroleum and is completely safe to eat and is added with nutrients. Who the hell would make plastic rice which will cost more than producing rice naturally. And those videos showing rice produced by plastic infact are not producing rice but plastic pellets and has nothing to do with rice.

https://technofizi.net/how-to-identify-plastic-rice-or-fake-rice/
 
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My god . u don’t even have the basic knowledge of science and especially plastics. There is no such thing as plastic rice …i.e rice made from the same material as polythene.. Yes there is rice which is plastic .. But made from bio plastic like starch which is naturally present in corn maize and potatoes but NOT plastic derived from petroleum and is completely safe to eat and is added with nutrients. Who the hell would make plastic rice which will cost more than producing rice naturally. And those videos showing rice produced by plastic infact are not producing rice but plastic pellets and has nothing to do with rice.

https://technofizi.net/how-to-identify-plastic-rice-or-fake-rice/
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Todays The Hindu & Zee news have covered this topic...This spurious rice is now sold in Uttarakhand...
Shocking!!

http://zeenews.india.com/uttarakhan...e-being-sold-in-haldwani-markets-2012687.html

http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...-residents-in-uttarakhand/article18744178.ece
 
Perennial plastic rice rumors bear all the hallmarks of a standard “food from China” panic, including identical claims rehashed year in and out without substantiation. The “Chinese Restaurant Official” is always warning that consuming the purported product is akin to eating a plastic bag and asserting that the motive behind the food fakery is cynically financial (without offering any proof that it’s cheaper to go to the trouble of making plastic rice than growing real rice). Another marker of panic over fabricated food from China is the existence of multiple videos purportedly depicting the shady manufacturing of fake rice in factories:
[video=youtube_share;ogz9n9kE_Fw]https://youtu.be/ogz9n9kE_Fw[/video]

At roughly the 1:40 mark, an individual’s hand enters the frame to manually sift the “grains of rice.” However, the product produced looks way too thick to pass as rice anywhere (commenters surmised the substance shown was actually non-food pellet filling). Language barriers are often effective in advancing such rumors, because unrelated videos can easily be labeled as “proof” of untoward practices when most viewers can’t understand the audio content of the clips.The repurposed video angle was at the forefront of another Chinese export panic involving labor intensive wax cabbage, proffered via a video clip swiped from an Asian television show about making “display food” which is not intended for consumption. And like the plastic rice rumor, the wax cabbage claim circulated bearing the implausible assumption that people would carry on unaware the salad they were eating tasted like a candle, or their rice had a styrofoam-y mouthfeel.


The plastic pellets look like rice, but the dimension alone will show that it is fake.
 
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[h=1]Fact check: Is there such a thing called 'plastic' rice?[/h]
Several complaints and rumours of ‘plastic rice’ in Telangana and Andhra have left people anxious.
People in Telangana and Andhra have been a worried lot as several complaints and rumours of 'plastic rice' have been doing the rounds on television and social media.

While some people in Visakhapatnam district filed a police complaint on the matter on Wednesday, some stalls at Vijayawada's Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium have stopped selling biriyani following poor sales for the last five days.

Meanwhile, Hyderabad saw complaints of 'plastic rice' from areas like Charminar, Yousufguda, Saroornagar and Meerpet.
Complaints and rumours of 'plastic rice', made its way to Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, as many traders and restaurants saw a dip in customers due to messages doing the rounds on social media.

Following this, the Telangana Food and Civil Supplies Department took note of the matter and conducted various samples of the suspected 'plastic rice'.

What is plastic rice?

"There is nothing called 'plastic' rice in the first place. The term itself came after a video from China went viral on social media last year. No one has ever proved that such a thing exists," Osman Mohiuddin, a quality control analyst from the state department tell TNM.

The rice in fact, may only be adulterated, but nothing more, experts say.

The video that Mohiuddin is referring to went viral last year on Chinese social media, and showed workers feeding plastic waste into a machine, with the end result being white, rice-like granules.

However, it was reported at the time, that the factory was merely producing plastic granules aimed for industrial use.

How can we tell if the rice is organic?

Mohiuddin says that there is a very simple method to differentiate rice from anything that could potentially not be rice.
"Just put it in some water. If it sinks, then its organic rice. If it doesn't, it could be mixed with some other material," he says.

Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/fact-check-there-such-thing-called-plastic-rice-63356

 
We all must be vigilant. We must do our due diligence before spreading fear in the general public.
I agree that even reputable news outlets have been fooled by this news.
Unless the people spreading manufactured news are prosecuted, this menace will continue to dominate the news cycle.
 
[FONT=&quot]Why would anyone produce plastic rice? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Yes, it makes no sense. India is one of the largest producers of rice in the world. It also heavily exports rice to other countries. If plastic rice really existed, it would require manufacturing units. Since there is no point producing rice in small quantities, it would mean setting up manufacturing cells which would cost substantial investment. Plus, this would be an illegal operation. All this would possibly mean plastic rice would be more expensive than actual rice and fraught with risks. But having said that, stranger things have happened. There have been unconfirmed reports in the past of eggs being made of plastic and milk being made of detergent powder.

Is plastic rice fear unfounded?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It could be, but we need to wait till food authorities offer more clarity. The authorities, according to media reports, are looking into the complaints. At this point, they too seem to be a little dumbstruck by the rumours on the social media. "We also came to know about plastic or fake rice through media and social networking sites. We have not received any instructions from our higher-ups so far on this issue, but locally I am sending four food inspectors to check rice with the main rice traders in Visakhapatnam," one of the officials told the Times of India. Meanwhile, Telangana Civil Supplies officials have reportedly collected samples and are awaiting lab reports. Rumours, such as plastic rice, are likely to spread fast on social media. This could just be the case.

http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/plastic-rice-fear-spreads-in-andhra-pradesh-telangana-but-why-would-anyone-produce-it/ar-BBCdtvx?li=AAgfYGb[/FONT]
 
Why would anyone add plastic rice to normal rice...It is much more costly to make plastic rice..It can be done only by our enemies to create chaos & confusion in the country..But we should be alert & nip the rumors in the bud!!
 

Fake rice made from plastic are on sale in Kerala

Kozhikode: After edible oils, the rice that are sold in the Kerala market too is adulterated. According to an investigation by Mathrubhumi News found that there is a large scale of rice made from plastic are sold in the market. The rice that are coming from China is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The rice stays hard even after being cooked and the soup forms a plastic sheath on its layer. This sheath while after drying burns like plastic.

Source: http://www.mathrubhumi.com/tv/ReadMore/13398/fake-rice-made-from-plastic-are-on-sale-in-kerala/E
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நேபாளம் வழியாக வரும் சீன பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி: டெல்லி மூத்த வழக்கறிஞர் புகார்

பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசியை நேபாளம் வழியாக இந்தியாவுக்கு சீனா அனுப்புவதாக மூத்த வழக்கறிஞர் சுக்ரீவா துபே (76) புகார் கூறியுள்ளார். இவர் பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி குறித்து கடந்த 2015-ல் டெல்லி உயர் நீதிமன்றத்தில் பொதுநல வழக்கு தொடர்ந்தவர் ஆவார்.

மூத்த வழக்கறிஞரும் இடதுசாரி சிந்தனையாளருமான சுக்ரீவா துபே, இது தொடர்பாக ‘தி இந்து’விடம் கூறும்போது, “அரிசி, பருப்பு, சர்க்கரை என அனைத்து உணவுப் பொருட்களி லும் கலப்படம் அதிகமாகி விட்டது. இதன் மூலம் நமது இளைய சமுதாயத்தினர் சர்வதேச நாடுகளால் குறி வைக்கப்படு கின்றனர். இந்தியாவின் வளர்ச்சியை கண்டு அவர்கள் அஞ்சுவதே இதற்கு காரணம்.

இயற்கையான அரிசியில் சீனாவின் பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி கலக்கப்படுவது குறித்து கடந்த 2015, ஜூலையில் வழக்கு தொடர்ந்தேன். இந்த வழக்கில் மத்திய அரசும் டெல்லி அரசும் பதில் அளிக்க உத்தரவிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இரு தினங்களுக்கு முன் டெல்லி, சதர் பஜாரில் கலப்படம் செய்ய வைத்திருந்த சீனாவின் பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசியை டெல்லி அரசு கைப்பற்றியுள்ளது. நான் தொடர்ந்த வழக்கின் அடுத்த விசாரணையில், சீனாவின் பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி நேபாளம் வழியாக இந்தியாவுக்கு வருவதை ஆதாரப்பூர்வமாக நிரூபிப்பேன். நேபாளத்தில் இருந்து சுமார் 400 இடங்களில் எல்லையை எளிதாகக் கடந்து இந்தியா வரமுடியும். இவற்றின் வழியாக தென் மாநிலங்கள் வரை பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி அனுப்பப்படுகிறது. இதை உண்ணச் செய்து புற்றுநோயை உருவாக்குவதே சீனாவின் நோக்கமாகும். ஏனெனில் சீனா நமக்கு புற்றுநோய் மருந்துகளை ஏற்றுமதி செய்கிறது” என்றார்.

கலப்படம் தொடர்பாக கடந்த 25 ஆண்டுகளில் 500-க்கும் மேற்பட்ட பொதுநல வழக்குகளை துபே தொடர்ந்துள்ளார். “கலப்படம் செய்யப்பட்ட அரிசியில் பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசியை கண்டுபிடிப்பது சிரமம். சமைத்து உண்ணும் போதும் வித்தியாசம் அறிவது கடினம். வயிற்றுக்குள் செல்லும் இந்த உணவில் இயற்கை அரிசி ஜீரணமாகி விடும். பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி மட்டும் உள்ளே ஒட்டிக்கொண்டு, புற்றுநோயை உருவாக்கும்” என்கிறார் துபே.

டெல்லி உயர் நீதிமன்றத்தில் 2015 முதல் ஒத்திவைக்கப்பட்டு வரும் பிளாஸ்டிக் அரிசி வழக்கு அடுத்த மாதம் தலைமை நீதிபதி முன்னிலையில் விசாரணைக்கு வரும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது.
இதனிடையே டெல்லியில் பிடிக்கப்படும் கலப்படப் பொருட்கள், உடனடியாக பரிசோதனை கூடங்களுக்கு அனுப்பப்படுவதில்லை என புகார் கூறப்படுகிறது.

Source: http://tamil.thehindu.com/india/நேப...லி-மூத்த-வழக்கறிஞர்-புகார்/article9724061.ece
 
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அப்பச்சி வைத்திருந்த மஞ்சப்பை எல்லாம் பிளாஸ்டிக் பையானபோது நாம் கலங்கவில்லை.

செவ்வந்தியும் சாமந்தியும் தவழ்ந்த பூஜை அறைகளில் பிளாஸ்டிக் பூக்கள் கடவுளை அலங்கரித்த போது நாம் பதறவில்லை.

அத்தனை சூட்டையும் தாங்கிய வாழையிலை, ஹோட்டல்களில் பிளாஸ்டிக் இலைகளாக மாறியபோது நாம் கவலைப்படவில்லை.

பார்சல் டீ காபி வாங்க கூஜாவை தூக்கிக் கொண்டு அலைவதை அவமானமாக பார்த்து, பிளாஸ்டிக் பையில் டீ வாங்கிய போது நாம் அதை உணரவில்லை.

நிமிர்ந்து குடிக்கிற இளநீரை வசதிக்காக பிளாஸ்டிக் ஸ்ட்ரா போட்டு குடித்தபோது நமக்கு அது பெரிய விஷமயாக இல்லை.

இலைதழை தின்ற ஆடு,மாடுகள் பிளாஸ்டிக்கை மென்று முழுங்கியபோது நமக்கு எந்த குற்ற உணர்வுமில்லை.

மண்பானையையும், எவர்சில்வரையும் ஒதுக்கிவிட்டு, பிளாஸ்டிக் குடங்களில் நீர்பிடித்தபோது நமக்கு எந்த வலியுமில்லை.

ஒவ்வொருநாளும் கொட்டுகிற குப்பைகளில் 90 சதவீதம் பிளாஸ்டிக் பொருட்களாய் இருந்தபோதும் நமக்கு எந்த பதற்றமுமில்லை.

இப்போது அரிசியில்தானே பிளாஸ்டிக் வந்திருப்பதாக சொல்கிறார்கள். பதற வேண்டியதில்லை. நம்முடைய மூளை பிளாஸ்டிக் ஆகிறவரை ஏதும் பிரச்னையில்லை !

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How to identify plastic rice: Tips to check quality of rice amidst rumours of fake Chinese rice entering India


There are reports of the fake Chinese rice being sold at grocery stores in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and is adding to the worries of the consumer’s health.






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http://www.india.com/buzz/how-to-id...-of-fake-chinese-rice-entering-india-2218164/


 
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