Arsenic in rice
2012-10-05 14:30:14.711355+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Something else to be paranoid about: Consumer Reports says rice contains worrying levels of arsenic.
No federal limit exists for arsenic in most foods, but the standard for drinking water is 10 parts per billion (ppb). Keep in mind: That level is twice the 5 ppb that the EPA originally proposed and that New Jersey actually established. Using the 5-ppb standard in our study, we found that a single serving of some rices could give an average adult almost one and a half times the inorganic arsenic he or she would get from a whole day’s consumption of water, about 1 liter.