Recently, four defendants were found guilty of providing toxic rice to a warehouse transfer attached to China’s state-owned grain reserves, according to China’s official court website.
The accused mixed 2,597 tons of rice containing excessive cadmium into bags of normal rice before their delivery to a location in Dongcheng district, Yangjiang city, Guangdong Province, during 2017 and 2018. They received one to five years’ prison sentences on the charge of violating food safety standards.
