An employee at the sole Guangdong producer, Daojiao Jinying Rice Product Factory, based in the city of Dongguan, said he was unaware of the issue.

WSJ: Cadmium-Tainted Rice Found in Guangzhou

An employee at one additionally named Guangdong producer, Daojiao Jinying Rice Product Factory, based in the city of Dongguan, said he was unaware of the issue.

WSJ: Cadmium-Tainted Rice Found in Guangzhou

That contentment is a product of her faith: a devout Presbyterian, Rice told White House staff members not to page her during Sunday churchgoing hours.

CNN: Condi Rice can't lose

If the first product on the market had been a nutritionally enhanced rice rather than a high-tech tomato, consumer response might now be very different.

ECONOMIST: In defence of the demon seed

This eclectic and limited product mix raises an obvious question: Is Lai firing at grocery battleships with grains of rice?

CNN: Groceries to go

They get more rice in this exchange than what they could buy in the market place with the cash for that one product, says Scott.

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In 1983, with demand for its rice cookers flat, Wang, partner Pan Ning and a few other cadres cast around for a new product to manufacture.

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