All of us are well familiar with the plastic rice and sugar through the videos in the social media..Rumours of plastic rice and the continuous flow of posts, videos and messages on social networking sites, particularly Facebook and WhatsApp, created panic on Tuesday in Andhra Pradesh too.The sale of plastic Rice has been reported in Hyderabad which sent shock waves among people and alerted Telangana state government. -
The sale of plastic Rice came to light based on a complaint lodged by a local in Hyderabad to the police that a grocery store sold plastic Rice to him. Taking serious note of it, police and civil supplies department immediately swung into action and raided some shops. Samples collected from the shops which has been sent to laboratory to ascertain the quality of rice.
Soon after the news spread in media, another report went viral on social media that plastic rice is being sold in Visakhapatnam also and forced the official to launch raids. If the reports are believed to be true, the sale of artificial Chinese Eggs is also taking place in some parts of Hyderabad. The officials already launched investigation into the smuggling of artificial eggs. -The department of weights and measures (W&M) is planning to keep a tab on this novel method of rice adulteration by forming a special enforcement team.
