> On Apr 14, 12:08 pm, muat...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> 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
>>> as
>>> 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,
>>> a
>>> research agency focusing on wise use of water and land resources,
>>> found
>>> samples of soil, rice, garlic, and soya bean containing harmful
>>> levels
>>> 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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> I thought most rice we conume are from the US product.
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