The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has downplayed reports of the influx of some fake rice purported to be \u2018plastic rice\u2019 on the Ghanaian market.<\/p>\n
A video of the supposed plastic rice was circulating on social media platforms cautioning people against the purchase of that particular brand of rice.<\/p>\n
But speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Public Relations Officer of the FDA, James Lartey, indicated that the authority’s investigations across the country have shown no trace of such \u2018plastic rice’ on the market.<\/p>\n “We went around checking and investigating and up till now, in any sample of the said rice, we are not seeing that the thing is on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Lartey suggested the possibility\u00a0of the allegations emanating\u00a0from the competitors in the rice retail market, but urged the public to report to the FDA if they indeed come across it.<\/p>\n “We are just appealing to the public, if you have a sample or you have seen somebody selling it, just get a sample, bring it to us or call us and tell us where the product is. We will move immediately and deal with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has downplayed reports of the influx of some fake rice purported to be \u2018plastic rice\u2019 on the Ghanaian market. A video of the supposed plastic rice was circulating on social media platforms cautioning people against the purchase of that particular brand of rice. But speaking to Citi News, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1404,3,8471],"class_list":["post-277244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fda","tag-ghana-news","tag-plastic-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}