In response to the public uproar, health officials in Hunan, the Chinese province that produces the most rice, announced on Tuesday the three local rice mills implicated in the sale of the tainted rice had been ordered to suspend production.
Food-safety officials in the southern province of Guangdong on Wednesday released the results of tests that showed less than 5% of local rice supplies contained excessive levels of cadmium, a carcinogenic heavy metal that can wreak havoc on the kidneys and weaken bones if ingested in large quantities.
Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.
It's one of the most satisfying and popular meals around, and goes great with local makgeolli (Korean rice wine).
Kurdish officials say his agents pay a local tax on smuggled rice out of this stash of Swiss dinars.
"They've received two 20-kilogram bags of rice from some local charities, and that's it, " he says.
Local politician Suresh Handsa says rice production has fallen because padi are contaminated .
Dr Tsanangurayi Tongesayi of Monmouth University in New Jersey, US, and his team have tested a number of imported brands of rice bought from local shops.
People took it for what it was, which is Condoleezza Rice talking to local politicians to see what they thought, rather than the other way around.
In 1999 he established the Kuan-Shu Educational Foundation, which runs an organic rice farm, restores local wetlands and operates a free tutoring program for low-income students.
However the entry of cheap foreign rice into the Haitian rice market has destroyed the local farming industry.
Its speciality is lulas e camaroes grelhados con arroz, the local grilled squid and prawns, with rice and a lime sauce.
For years, foreign rice was banned in Japan, save for an annual 14, 000 tonnes of Thai rice needed by Okinawan brewers for a local tipple.
She's eating local dishes like diri ak djon-djon (rice with black mushrooms), getting all the village gossip from her father and getting respite from the summer heat in the river that snakes down from the mountains.
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Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.
The Good Fork is filled with a candle-lit glow, a devoted local crowd and offers inventive dishes like steak and eggs with kimchee rice.
Rice was accompanied by her UK counterpart, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who is a local member of Parliament.
The government bought rice and maize seed abroad, but Hondurans are choosy about beans: they like a local red variety.
Almost five years later, diners are still packing the house to sample his crispy rice cakes filled with Florida rock shrimp and smoky chorizo as well as ceviche made with a local catch, papaya, red onion, citrus and avocado.
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Emmett Rice from St Malachy's College, Belfast, said environmental eco-tourism was more profitable for local communities than fishing.
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