Is rice permitted on Passover without checking? Additionally, there have been rumors about people finding traces of wheat in the rice?
Years ago the people would check the rice and obviously some did find wheat or barley, and they removed it. Otherwise, there would have been no need to check the rice. Nowadays, it is almost unheard of to find anything other than rice in your bag of rice. Carolina Rice and Uncle Bens etc., have major systems and processes in place to keep out anything but rice. Our fathers final Pesak was that since they have a thorough processing system to sift out anything that is not rice, it is permitted. Additionally, there is no need to check the rice, since the checking done by the manufacturer is so much more thorough than we can ever do on our own.
