Arsenic levels in rice...

[DrLeftover]

Sep 6, 2013 12:32pm EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that after testing 1,300 samples of rice and rice products, it has determined that the amount of detectable arsenic is too low to cause immediate or short-term negative health effects.

The agency said its next step will be to use new tools that provide greater specificity about different types of arsenic present in foods, to analyze the effect of long-term exposure to low levels of arsenic in rice.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/06/us-arsenic-rice-idUSBRE9850T820130906

 

[Jazzy]

I'm safe either way. I don't really eat rice. Only time I do is when I order pork fried rice from the chinese restaurant.

 

[Fergal]

It's shocking when news stories come out about the dangers of eating food that we would naturally assume to be healthy. Were those arsenic levels found in rice from any particular country?

 

[DrLeftover]

This is all it says:

The FDA declined to name specific products among the samples it tested, saying that while the total number of samples was large enough to accurately measure average levels of arsenic, it was not large enough to evaluate specific brands.

Some companies source their rice from different locations, which may result in samples from the same brand having different levels of arsenic over time, the agency said.

There's another story here:

The FDA decided to conduct its own tests of more than 1,300 samples of rice and related products, and determined the levels of "inorganic arsenic" were too low to cause immediate health damage.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57601778/fda-arsenic-in-rice-wont-harm-health-immediately-but-long-term-risk-unclear/

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Mmmm, thats the secret sauce.