Feb 8, 2011 -- 8:36AM, IreneAdler wrote:

Blech!

 No problem with potato + sweet potato, but I would think there’d be digestive harm with ingesting that amount of plastic with these foods.  Plastic resin may be inert, but what about causing blockages-esp. in the very young or elderly?

Apparently plastic its-self is harmful or can be, it is made from oil don't forget.

www.ecologycenter.org/factsheets/plastic...

Not that it stops me using plastic bottles, although eating it is surely worse than storing food inside it.

Feb 8, 2011 -- 8:36AM, IreneAdler wrote:

That could be very damaging or even deadly.

 Why not use starch (wheat, corn, potato or even rice) to hold the potato+sweet potato together to form 'rice' grains instead?

Don't encourage them.

Feb 8, 2011 -- 8:36AM, IreneAdler wrote:

Or better yet, sell rice to folks expecting to purchase rice.

That probably is the best idea make it illegal to sell something, as something else, an invented potato grain should not be sold as rice-(Ofcourse business will say- "that idea is regulation gone mad, business should be free, to sell cardbourd as bread").

Maybe you could sell it as a new type of food, but it's not rice and no one should be expected to eat plastics.

I thought maybe they could have used gelatin instead but that is made of pig skin and bones

 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin

Either way it's not rice and never will be, so should not be sold as rice.

Total pom + cranberry breakfast cerial 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii88g-op4xo

Feb 8, 2011 -- 6:41AM, JoliverJOLLY wrote:

According to a local Chinese paper "weekly hong kong"

Quote:- (The rice) is formed by mixing the potatoes and sweet potatoes into the shape of rice grains, then adding industrial synthetic resins.

www.eutimes.net/2011/02/china-makes-fake...


"Fiat food" Max Keiser... 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT3JTUCaB_4&feat...

Hoo, boy.  Reminds me of why the FDA got put together in the first place---unscrupulous "businessmen" that mixed sawdust with "ground beef."

Usually, China is swift to lop off a few heads when stuff like this happens(e.g. the lead in toys thing); haven't read the articles, yet, but has this happened?  Mfr's hauled off in chains, made to confess their crimes on national teevee, that sort of thing?

With goodwill to all the People-

Hatman

Feb 8, 2011 -- 10:40AM, Hatman wrote:

Feb 8, 2011 -- 6:41AM, JoliverJOLLY wrote:

According to a local Chinese paper "weekly hong kong"

Quote:- (The rice) is formed by mixing the potatoes and sweet potatoes into the shape of rice grains, then adding industrial synthetic resins.

www.eutimes.net/2011/02/china-makes-fake...


"Fiat food" Max Keiser... 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT3JTUCaB_4&feat...

Hoo, boy. Reminds me of why the FDA got put together in the first place---unscrupulous "businessmen" that mixed sawdust with "ground beef."

and regulations a bad thing.....

Feb 8, 2011 -- 10:40AM, Hatman wrote:

Usually, China is swift to lop off a few heads when stuff like this happens(e.g. the lead in toys thing); haven't read the articles, yet, but has this happened?

Mfr's hauled off in chains, made to confess their crimes on national teevee, that sort of thing? With goodwill to all the People- Hatman

A good point to make but I have seen this reported in a few different places now.

Besides that apparently they have been exporting it, not feeding it to the Chinese people as far as we know anyway and Vietnam is a bit annoyed.

But all the stories are going back to the same main sourse so I suppose time will tell.

Feb 8, 2011 -- 11:37AM, Christianlib wrote:

Gotta watch those tricky Chinese, next they'll try to tell us Ketchup is a vegetable.