Plastic Rice

A number of videos showing plastic rice, plastic vegetables and condiments in India, have been going viral on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. FSSAI has expressed concern about the supposed dubious claims in these videos and has flagged the issue to the IT Ministry.

Rumours of plastic rice being sold in Cuttack on Thursday triggered panic among some residents in the city, local administration officials said. A similar rumour was also reported from Odisha's Nuapada district last week, officials said.

Trashing reports about availability of "plastic" rice and "synthetic" eggs in the market as "mere rumours", Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader said no such case has been reported so far in the state.

Plastic rice reports is causing fear in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. People across these two states were panic stricken after these reports

After the news of fake eggs being sold at a Kolkata market triggered panic across the country, now the news of plastic rice being sold at some grocery outlets in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana has taken the internet by storm. Consumption of plastic rice is dangerous for health and can even lead to deadly diseases like cancer and birth defects. While ...

In the last seven days in Hyderabad, there have been complaints from the Charminar area, Yousufguda, Saroornagar and Meerpet that multiple outlets are selling what is being dubbed as 'plastic rice' which is causing health problems.

Around 100 bags of "plastic rice" seized in Lagos have turned out to contain real but contaminated rice, authorities said Friday in Nigeria, where prices for the staple have rocketed.

The Delhi High Court has asked the city government to file an affidavit indicating the steps it has taken to create awareness and to curb the usage of the pesticide residue or colouring in fruits and vegetables available here in markets.

The monsoon in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district has just picked up. It's been raining incessantly for the past few days. At a government godown, a few black sheets of cheap plastic lazily cover tons of rice bags. The stench is unbearable. And apart for a few stray cows and buffalos that seem to be having a field day gorging into the grains, no one...

A number of videos showing plastic rice, plastic vegetables and condiments in India, have been going viral on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. FSSAI has expressed concern about the supposed dubious claims in these videos and has flagged the issue to the IT Ministry.

Rumours of plastic rice being sold in Cuttack on Thursday triggered panic among some residents in the city, local administration officials said. A similar rumour was also reported from Odisha's Nuapada district last week, officials said.

Trashing reports about availability of "plastic" rice and "synthetic" eggs in the market as "mere rumours", Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader said no such case has been reported so far in the state.

Plastic rice reports is causing fear in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. People across these two states were panic stricken after these reports

After the news of fake eggs being sold at a Kolkata market triggered panic across the country, now the news of plastic rice being sold at some grocery outlets in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana has taken the internet by storm. Consumption of plastic rice is dangerous for health and can even lead to deadly diseases like cancer and birth defects. While ...

In the last seven days in Hyderabad, there have been complaints from the Charminar area, Yousufguda, Saroornagar and Meerpet that multiple outlets are selling what is being dubbed as 'plastic rice' which is causing health problems.

Around 100 bags of "plastic rice" seized in Lagos have turned out to contain real but contaminated rice, authorities said Friday in Nigeria, where prices for the staple have rocketed.

The Delhi High Court has asked the city government to file an affidavit indicating the steps it has taken to create awareness and to curb the usage of the pesticide residue or colouring in fruits and vegetables available here in markets.

The monsoon in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district has just picked up. It's been raining incessantly for the past few days. At a government godown, a few black sheets of cheap plastic lazily cover tons of rice bags. The stench is unbearable. And apart for a few stray cows and buffalos that seem to be having a field day gorging into the grains, no one...