> On Apr 13, 12:57 pm, yajy...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Folks,  the rice price is soaring but the quality is degrading and
>> dangerous for consumers.  I swifted to the long grain brand and also
>> eat more brown rice.  The brown rice is not that cheaper either but it
>> is good for my health.

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>> My cousin had gout and he swifted to brown rice and more vegetable on
>> his diet and now he is healthy and no more complain like a Hmong
>> United Methodist pastor whose member told me that when their pastor
>> has a gout, he could not walk for weeks.

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>> Here is the copy of the newspaper about the Thai rice.
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>> Overseas Vietnamese at risk over suspect Thai rice

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>> Vietnamese living abroad are at risk of serious health problems if
>> consuming Thai jasmine rice found to have unusually high levels of a
>> deadly heavy metal, expatriate press reported Feb 24.
>> "Beware of contaminated Thai rice" was the headline of an article
>> on the Tin Viet News newspaper, which said a Jasmine rice imported
>> from
>> Thailand was contaminated with cadmium, a deadly heavy metal that can
>> cause bone and kidney damage.

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>> The rice has been grown in the province of Tak in Thailand, selected
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>> Thailand's best jasmine rice over the last two years, the overseas
>> Vietnamese newspaper said.

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>> "It is a very serious issue as currently, nearly three million
>> overseas Vietnamese are consuming rice imports from Thailand," said
>> the Cali Today.

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>> Overseas Vietnamese should not eat rice imported from Thailand when
>> its
>> quality has not been confirmed, famed Vietnamese agricultural expert
>> Vo
>> Tong Xuan suggested.

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>> Thai media agrees

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>> The Thai media has also confirmed the news about the contaminated
>> rice.
>> The Nation said Feb. 28 Thailand's Pollution Control Department (PCD)
>> discovered cadmium contamination of up to 10 times the standard limit
>> in rice from Tambon Pratatpadaeng, in Mae Sot District.

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>> Thailand's Communicable Disease Control Department will receive the
>> results of blood tests carried out on villagers, the newspaper said,
>> but unofficial reports from doctors suggest that some of the
>> villagers
>> have traces of cadmium exceeding acceptable limits.

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>> PCD officials from the two departments have urged locals to stop
>> consuming the rice, The Nation said.

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>> Also, according to the Bangkok Post, tests of more than 30 grain
>> samples collected by PCD officials from Mae Tao Mai and Pha Dei
>> riverside villages found between 0.7 and over 2 milligrams of cadmium
>> per kilogram of rice, exceeding the international limit of 0.2.

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>> ''The figures appear to correspond with those earlier reported by
>> IWMI,'' the Bangkok Post quoted Adisak Thongkaimook, PCD deputy chief
>> as saying.

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>> In its 2002 report, IWMI or International Water Management Institute,
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>> research agency focusing on wise use of water and land resources,
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>> samples of soil, rice, garlic, and soya bean containing harmful
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>> of bone-damaging cadmium, it said.

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>> Thai government's response

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>> After the news was released, the Thai consulate in the US sent a
>> letter
>> to the Vietnamese community in Orange Country in California, saying
>> that Thailand's rice was not contaminated.

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>> Also, Thai Trade Center, a government agency based in Los Angeles,
>> the
>> US said the Thai government has bought and destroyed all affected
>> rice
>> in Tak province.

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>> It said the rice was only consumed by locals and has never been
>> exported to any other country. Also, Thai rice exporters said their
>> rice exports were grown in other provinces, not in Tak.

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>> Compiled by H.N.C - Translated by Hieu Trung.

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>> DO YOU BELIEVE THE SIAMESE PEOPLE?  I AM NOT.  STOP EATING THEIR RICE
>> AND YOU WILL LIVE LONGER.

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> If the search has been identified. This NEWS should be revealed to
> most the Mhong people in U.S.A not to consume the jasmine rice from
> Thailand.
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> Thanks,
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