Tests are available that can
detect high arsenic levels and tend to capture arsenic exposure over longer histories than other toxic chemicals.
Even though rice cereal is the top problem, tests also
show high arsenic levels in apple juice, rice milk, rice cakes, puffed rice cereals and snacks, and other foods including some infant formulas that are sweetened with brown rice syrup (look for «brown rice syrup» on the ingredient list).
Brown rice syrup used in many organic foods as a substitute for the often - chastised high fructose corn sugar is causing problems of its own
with high arsenic levels.
Of course, not all rice
contains high arsenic levels, but determining the arsenic content of a particular rice product may be difficult (or impossible) without actually measuring it in a lab.
Gluten - free foods that contain rice flour instead of wheat flour can also have
high arsenic levels.
Dartmouth College researchers found formula - fed infants have
higher arsenic levels than breast - fed babies.
They found
the highest arsenic levels in areas where the river flow was slow and new sediment was being deposited, typically next to land inside a river bend.
As a group, they had
higher arsenic levels than their European counterparts, likely due to the underlying geology of U.S. wine growing regions.
Water from up to 10 percent of residential wells in Maine has
high arsenic levels, with that number reaching 60 percent in some areas in the coastal «arsenic belt.»
Lundberg rice of California was shown to have some of
the highest arsenic levels of all.