Going versus the grain

EXPLAINER: The federalgovernment’s strategy to sell old rice from the Yingluck vowing plan has triggered issues over the unfavorable effect on public health and Thailand’s international trackrecord The 2 storagefacilities hold around 146,000 sacks weighing more than 15,000 tonnes. The federalgovernment’s strategy to sell old rice kept in storagefacilities for a years in northeastern Thailand shocked some observers, leading to issues about the unfavorable effect on public health. Earlier this month Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, along with agents of personal and public organisations, rice propertysurveyors, rice exporters and pressreporters, wentto 2 rice storagefacilities in Surin province to sample grain kept there for more than a years to test the quality and whether it is edible. The grains were saved as part of the rice promising plan started by the Yingluck Shinawatra federalgovernment. The rice storagefacilities they checkedout were the Kittichai in Prasat district and the Poolphol Trading Co in Muang district. The 2 storagefacilities hold around 146,000 sacks weighing more than 15,000 tonnes. Q: Why is the proposed sale of old rice notable? Analysts and activists challenged Mr Phumtham and alerted of the possible health effect from consuming old rice that might consistof aflatoxins and chemical contamination, which might lead to cancer. Academics mentioned cases in Japan in which rice was kept for up to 3 years offered it is vacuum-sealed versus humidity and kept at a managed temperaturelevel of 13°C, which was not the case in the Thai storagefacilities. The commerce minister stated the rice at both storagefacilities hadactually been thoroughly maintained and was often fumigated utilizing methyl bromide, while the storagefacilities themselves were entirely sealed to avoid birds and rainwater from getting within. Opponents of the sale of the decade-old rice mentioned a researchstudy by a Japanese r
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