I went through a lot of my preps this weekend, and I found that about 28# of rice I had vacuum sealed was “puffy.” Not the kernels themselves, but the vacuum was gone, but the bags were intact. I’m worried about botulism, and have pulled them from my preps for now. What would cause the rice to outgas? Has anyone else seen this before? I was careful when I packaged the rice, and it looks like it was only the batches I did in 7/09 and 11/09 so far. All the rest of the vacuum sealed rice (about another 30#) seems fine, including some bags from those batches. All the other vacuum-sealed items like beans, lentils, corn, dehydrated fruit, etc. are all still under a vacuum.
Please leave a comment if you know what’s going on!
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I have noticed the same on some bags of rice, when I dumped the rice into a bucket and tested the bag it had dozens of tiny pin pricks in it with water flowing out, I think they were moved in a stack mixed with bags of beans, perhaps the rubbing on the beans caused some of the sharp edges on broken grains of dried rice to poke through?
I fed the rice to the chickens beacuse the open ones were transported in the back of a truck and I did not want any deisel dust or lead on the grain my family was eating.
You can only get botulism from meats.
I did no know that, thanks for the info!