Thread: Arsenic Found in Rice Products

Metspitzer <[email protected]> wrote:

>Arsenic Found in All Rice Products: Alarming levels of harmful arsenic
>have been found in every rice product tested by the FDA in its ongoing
>investigation, reports the Chicago Tribune.
>
>There is currently no official upside to the amount of inorganic
>arsenic, a known carcinogen, allowed in food.
>
>But Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a statement: "First
>and foremost, I want to warn parents that every rice cereal product we
>tested contained arsenic. These results are shocking because rice
>cereal is often a baby's first solid food. Parents and caregivers
>should moderate the amount of rice products they feed their children,
>while the FDA sets standards to limit this known carcinogen in our
>food." via Chicago Tribune
>
>http://news.discovery.com/human/arse...mkcpgn=rssnws1

When this came up a few months ago I was thinking that it was those
pesky Chinese again--- but I read that most of the arsenic is USA
grown rice on old tobacco fields- where arsenic was used and remains
in the soil. rice is a very efficient 'cleaner'- so at some point
those fields won't be giving us arsenic -laced rice.

So if we live long enough, we're all set. [or maybe we should only
let old people eat domestic rice for a while. . ]

Jim