Hope this is an urban legend - plastic rice

[19Sandy]

Apparently, China food manufacturers are making plastic rice!

It is made from a combination of sweet potatoes, regular potatoes and plastic.

Consuming three bowls is comparable to eating one plastic bag.

Hopefully, none of this plastic rice is in the USA or other of our countries but it is being exported to several other regions.

Now I need to inspect my recently purchased brown rice to see where it is from.

I don't know what tourists traveling to China and other countries are supposed to do to make sure they are not eating plastic.

[sweetana3]

Your article was very likely a hoax. However, if you are interested in some "bad" food stories about China, here is the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China#Cat_Meat_Scandal

I did a google search on "urban legend chinese plastic rice?" and got a bunch of old info on the hoax.

Next time please post the actual link to the article so it can be examined.

[catherine]

Snopes also says this information is "unproven"

http://www.snopes.com/plastic-rice-from-china/

[sweetana3]

Thanks Catherine. My google search probably used the wrong words.

[catherine]

Thanks Catherine. My google search probably used the wrong words.

I always go to Snopes for crazy stuff I read on Facebook and other places. I usually find it there.

[19Sandy]

Your article was very likely a hoax. However, if you are interested in some "bad" food stories about China, here is the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China#Cat_Meat_Scandal

I did a google search on "urban legend chinese plastic rice?" and got a bunch of old info on the hoax.

Next time please post the actual link to the article so it can be examined.

TV news program - not article.

Might be a hoax but there was problems with pet food and kids toys that were real.

[sweetana3]

TV news program is probably the least likely to be right. So sad that they always go for sensationalism and pull from whatever source they find without doing a good job of determining whether the info is correct. We all must be skeptical and do our own minimal checking as Catherine did before spreading the info to a wider audience.

You are right that there are issues with Chinese products of various kinds, mostly overseas, but not always. See the Wikipedia site I provided for more examples.