Eating leftover rice can indeed lead to food poisoning if it's not handled properly. The culprit isn't necessarily the reheating process itself, but rather the conditions in which the rice was stored before reheating.
Louisiana rice millers and the entire industry took the gloves off in the fight against what they call "rice pretenders," and they won with a knock-out.
Before you go to the cabinet and throw out all your rice, understand that we don't mean someone has been tampering with Southwest Louisiana's staple food. There's a lot more to the story.