Sentences with phrase «only inorganic arsenic»

- The table of «no significant risk levels» for carcinogens lists only inorganic arsenic and does not recognize organic arsenic as a potential for risk.

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You have to factor in whether or not the element actually has any «proven» toxicity (tungsten has no demonstrated toxicity), whether it's organic or inorganic (organic arsenic is virtually ignored by the body), and whether it's bound or unbound (bound cadmium has only 2 - 6 % absorbability).

Arsenic (As) exposure from rice is of particular concern for infants and children.1 - 4 Infant rice cereal, a common first food, 5,6 may contain inorganic As concentrations exceeding 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, 4 the new European Union regulations of 100 ng / g for products aimed at infants7 (eTable 1 in the Supplement), and the proposed US Food and Drug Administration limit.8 Infants consuming only a few servings of rice cereal or other products (eg, rice snacks) per day may exceed the now - withdrawn provisional weekly tolerable intakes for As set by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives.9, 10

And the flooded fields — which turned out to foster the release of inorganic arsenic — only made things worse.

I think part of the problem here is separating out what is caused only by inorganic arsenic consumption.

The agency found that about half of the samples contained levels of inorganic arsenic that were higher than 100 ppb, but most exceeded the proposed limit only slightly.