Eating leftover rice can indeed lead to food poisoning if it's not handled properly. The culprit isn't necessarily the reheating process itself, but rather the conditions in which the rice was stored before reheating.
Louisiana rice millers and the entire industry took the gloves off in the fight against what they call "rice pretenders," and they won with a knock-out.
Many people wonder why are they in front of the restaurant and what's inside each of them? Is it rice? Storage space for the restaurant? Refrigeration?
Earlier this week, I caught wind of Walmart's "Open Call" program. The world's biggest retailer is actively seeking out products made in the USA for their stores, and they are throwing down more than $300 billion dollars to make it happen...
An LSU Agcenter agronomist will help determine whether levels of arsenic in rice are higher in different varieties and whether the methods used to flood paddies affect arsenic content.