date:May 23, 2013
isted the health risks were very low and China's standards for rice, its staple food, are far higher than the rest of the world, authorities swiftly came under attack from users of China's popular microblogging service Weibo. Guangzhou was eventually compelled to reveal the tainted rice originated from central China's Hunan province, the country's biggest rice-producing region.
Hunan produces 30 million tonnes of rice a year, 15 percent of the national crop, but it is also a big miner of nonfer