The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) recently proposed levels of
inorganic arsenic in rice that «occurs naturally» and thus are exempt from the Proposition 65 warning requirement.
The study results come weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed limits on
inorganic arsenic levels in infant rice cereals.
Even accounting for the 2 - 4 times greater
inorganic Arsenic content of US - grown rice (which accounts for just 1.4 % of total world rice production), people in those Asian countries still consume up to 10 times as much Arsenic from rice, yet they have among the lowest overall incidence of cancer.
A lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims that some California wines tested
for inorganic arsenic contain higher - than - allowable levels.
Infant rice cereal may
contain inorganic arsenic concentrations that exceed the recommendation from the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of 200 ng / g for polished white rice, the new European Union regulations of 100 ng / g for products aimed at infants, and the proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration limit for infant rice cereal.
A folow - up 2014 Consumer Reports article noted «Brown rice has 80 percent
more inorganic arsenic on average than white rice of the same type.»
The FDA study was prompted by scientific reports showing that organic arsenic, which is the form of arsenic in 3 - Nitro, could be converted to the more toxic
inorganic arsenic from in the environment, the administration said.
In 2012, Consumer Reports released a groundbreaking report which showed that many common rice products contain levels of
inorganic arsenic which exceed the amount allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency in drinking water.
In 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that «
inorganic arsenic exposure in infants and pregnant women can result in a child's decreased performance on certain developmental tests that measure learning,» and proposed a limit on arsenic in infant rice cereal of 100 parts per billion.
In recent years, sadly, this has been realised as a terrifying occurrence
as inorganic arsenic has been uncovered in various baby foods.
A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporating rice husk to soil can decrease
toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield.
For instance, white rices from California have 38 percent
less inorganic arsenic than white rices from other parts of the country.
I hope we don't hear (as we did initially in the reports of arsenic in fruit juice) any more pathetic arguments regarding the toxicological merits of organic
vs. inorganic arsenic.
Organic arsenic is rapidly excreted, mostly as dimethylarsinic acid,
while inorganic arsenic is metabolized to the carcinogens MMA and DMA which hang around longer.
Extremely important in the agronomical programs is constantly reducing and minimizing different contaminants like heavy metals (
low inorganic arsenic, low cadmium), mycotoxines & others.
- The table of «no significant risk levels» for carcinogens lists
only inorganic arsenic and does not recognize organic arsenic as a potential for risk.
FIn 2011, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer temporarily suspended use of the poultry drug Roxarsone after FDA reports showing that the arsenical compounds in the drug may break down
into inorganic arsenic, a toxin that can produce skin lesions, respiratory irritation, and several types of cancer in exposed persons, Fand may leach into local water supplies or remain in chicken tissue after slaughter.
That is why we are committed to using brown rice ingredients that provide health benefits while being manufactured in a way that ensures there is no
notable inorganic arsenic level.
it doesn't fully address the difference
between inorganic arsenic (which poses a health risk) vs. organic arsenic (which is not known to pose a health risk and is actually needed in low levels by the human body as noted here).
A recent Environmental Protection Agency estimate showed that
chronic inorganic arsenic intake of more than 0.3 mcg / kg of body weight per day may cause skin or vascular problems.
In 2012, after new technology for testing
inorganic arsenic became available, scientists commissioned by the FDA surveyed the levels of arsenic in common rice products.
If inorganic arsenic has a dose - response curve that reflects hormesis (at low - doses, no harms and perhaps small benefits), then the absence of evidence for elevated risk in Americans with drinking drinking water up to 190 μg / L (19 times the EPA limit) suggests an ample margin of safety in just about any plant based diet.
China's standard for
acceptable inorganic arsenic level in rice is 200 ppb which means almost all rice would be satisfactory, i.e. excluding old cotton fields.
Most of the arsenic in the American diet may gave come from meat; arsenic - containing drugs have been fed to farm animals to kill intestinal parasites, which can convert to
inorganic arsenic during cooking.
Though the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
classifies inorganic arsenic as a «human carcinogen,» it is still allowed to be used in chicken feed.
The three energy shot blocks contained
enough inorganic arsenic that if an individual were to consume the manufacturer - recommended four servings during a two - hour workout, they would ingest the equivalent of drinking a liter of water containing 10 µg / L arsenic; total arsenic would be twice that.
Phrases with «inorganic arsenic»