There's a news story about manufactured plastic rice being marketed in Nigeria and sold as real rice. This is after there being older stories about plastic rice being made in China and sold as counterfeit rice. I'm skeptical.
Suspected plastic rice has been seized in Nigeria and is being tested. Authorities there say it will take some time for scientific results. It seems to me that anyone could apply a flame to this stuff and quickly know if it is plastic as it would melt or catch fire and smell like burning plastic.
The idea seems to be that plastic rice would be cheaper and easily manufactured. I'm wondering if it would actually be more expensive than real rice.
BBC story here. They have several articles on plastic rice if you search.
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Snopes story here. They say the claim is unproven.
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Is this an urban legend?
Suspected plastic rice has been seized in Nigeria and is being tested. Authorities there say it will take some time for scientific results. It seems to me that anyone could apply a flame to this stuff and quickly know if it is plastic as it would melt or catch fire and smell like burning plastic.
The idea seems to be that plastic rice would be cheaper and easily manufactured. I'm wondering if it would actually be more expensive than real rice.
BBC story here. They have several articles on plastic rice if you search.
http://ift.tt/2hy3VBL
Snopes story here. They say the claim is unproven.
http://ift.tt/2hh1iXh
Is this an urban legend?
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