Is your rice safe to eat? Importer Jack Charles has questioned that. He says that according to the law, it should be completely free of Aflatoxins. And he commissioned a test form a US lab which shows less than two micrograms of aflatoxins per kilogram in three brands of locally produced rice.
Yesterday the Bureau of Standards came out emphatically to say, quote, "none of the rice samples analysed contain detectable levels of aflatoxins and as a result does not pose any threat to human health."
Today the CEO in the Ministry of Agriculture told us that Jack Charles is playing games with an important industry:..
Jose Alpuche, CEO - Ministry of Agriculture
"I believe what he is doing by raising these false alarm is a disservice to the rice industry, a disservice to the consumers and a 
disservice to Belize. And man, we have to be much more serious than that. We are dealing with people's livelihood when we speak of any productive sector here in Belize and I really would hope that people would be a little bit more responsible than put out these false reports."
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