Sentences with phrase «rice samples»

Nearly a quarter of the tested rice samples carried more than 5 micrograms of arsenic per serving.

These ancient rice samples were compared to a database collected from 216 modern cultivated and wild rice DNA samples from around the world.

So far, 5,245 non-Thai rice samples have been dispatched to Thailand for breeding of new varieties.

Arsenic, Cd, Pb, Zn, Mn and Cu were found in higher concentrations in brown rice samples (organic rice from Brazil).

A white rice sample from Louisiana ranked highest in total arsenic (0.66 μg / g), and an organic brown rice from California ranked lowest (0.10 μg / g).

«Total arsenic levels in the 107 south central rice samples averaged 0.30 μg / g, compared to an average of 0.17 μg / g in the 27 California samples.

A succession of food safety scandals has also rocked China; in 2013, the Food and Drug Authority of Guangzhou, the mega-city in China's hyper - industrialized south, revealed that 44 percent of rice samples it tested had dangerous levels of cadmium, a heavy metal that can harm the liver and kidneys and cause cancer.

Consumer Reports also tested rice samples.

«The rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas, about 76 percent of domestic rice, generally had higher levels of total arsenic and inorganic arsenic in our tests than rice samples from elsewhere.»

White rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas, which accounts for 76 percent of US rice production, generally had higher levels of total arsenic and inorganic arsenic in our tests than rice samples from elsewhere.