Despite the Ghanaian social media landscape being filled with videos of individuals claiming to have purchased plastic rice, also known as fake rice in Ghana, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says that can never be true.
FDA has debunked claims that plastic rice is in Ghana–saying, after a laboratory test, they’ve established that the social media claims are not true.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, June 23, 2017, the CEO of the FDA Mimi Darko said their test has shown that the rice being called plastic rice are just normal rice with high starch
She said, “there is currently no plastic rice on the market.”