Gastroenterologist Christine Lee said: "Like most food poisoning, fried rice syndrome can occur when you don’t cook or store food at the right temperatures.
Plenty of people know the rules around meat and fish when it comes to avoiding a serious case of food poisoning, but did you know rice and pasta could be just as lethal?
People call it ‘fried rice syndrome’ because the process of cooking rice, leaving it out and then reheating it creates a perfect environment for this germ.
Known as 'fried rice syndrome, the potentially fatal condition is a form of food poisoning that few people realise can occur.
There have been extreme cases of people dying as a result of 'fried rice syndrome', but most will simply "feel awful for a day or two", claims Dr Lee.
