If you’ve had sushi in California in the last four years, you probably ate tainted ‘flush rice’

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/11/if-youve-had-sushi-in-california-in-the-last-four-years-you-probably-ate-tainted-flush-rice/



Tens of thousands of people may have consumed tainted rice over the last several years, claims a new lawsuit.

If you’ve had sushi in California in the last four years, you probably ate tainted ‘flush rice’
September 11, 2014
Chris Weller
Posted with permission from Medical Daily

Anyone who’s eaten sushi in California over the last four years may be involved in a new lawsuit, which claims the rice sold to many restaurants, while billed as U.S. No.1 Extra Fancy Rice, actually had been contaminated with rodent waste, mold, and insect parts.

According to CBS News, the class-action lawsuit names Farmer’s Rice Cooperative as having distributed tainted rice to thousands of grocery stores across California, potentially exposing consumers to harmful bacteria and disease. Sellers purposely blended the inedible rice with the correct supply to mask the contamination, the lawsuit claims. As little as 15 percent of the rice sold to restaurants may have been suitable for human consumption.

“The rice is adulterated with what’s called flush in this industry,” said attorney Brian Kabateck to CBS News. “And flush in the industry is anything that is not supposed to be in the rice.”

This isn’t the first time rice has gotten press for contamination. Amid growing concern that arsenic levels in rice were reaching dangerously high levels, in 2013 the Food and Drug Administration released data on approximately 1,300 samples of rice showing the levels were too low to cause any immediate or short-term adverse health effects. Due to low sample size, the agency released no brands whose levels may have been too high.

[bloomington-lib]

1. "The brands in question go by the names New Variety, New Rose, and Imperial Rose."

[littlemissmartypants]

2. ...

All of which are my stripper names, allegedly.

[vicman]

5. Good one!

Great laugh to start the day

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[Granny M]

4. K & R nt

[Enthusiast]

6. Kicked and recommended! This is horrible.

Thank you, unhappycamper.

[IdaBriggs]

7. Kick & YUCK. nt

[mopinko]

8. years ago i worked in a food packing plant.

we made the big cans of drink mix, hawaiian punch, couple others. when we had stuff that flunked inspection, it became "rework" meaning that it was added back in to other batches, up to a certain percentage.
not usually a hygiene issue, usually had to do with formulas out of whack. it was mostly sugar. it was added back in to the same product. not that bad, but some makers would let you do that and others wouldnt.

which is to say, this is pretty standard practice i would imagine, for the less scrupulous out there.

[JoeyT]

9. How sad is it that when I clicked on the link, I was expecting it to be worse than it is.

I might have eaten shit? Oh. It was just rat shit and maybe some arsenic. Thank goodness.

I was expecting them to have flooded the fields with raw sewage.

[pscot]

10. Yum!

Rice also readily takes up heavy metals in case you aren't getting enough cadmium in your diet.

[dickthegrouch]

11. Eeeeek!

I eat sushi at least once a week.

Half of what I eat has rice in it, since I'm gluten intolerant.

May all contaminators be stripped of everything they hold dear.