Prepare it differently. Cooking rice like pasta - by boiling it in a lot of water and then straining it - can reduce arsenic ...

For years, experts have sounded alarm bells over arsenic levels in brown rice. New research has found that brown rice has a higher concentration of arsenic than white rice in the U.S.—affirming ...

Levels trending down Agency data shows most products on the market are already below the level it is now recommending, Susan Mayne, director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied ...

Inorganic arsenic – the type found in pesticides – can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period. The FDA uses 23 parts per billion as a guide to ...

Rice tends to absorb higher levels of inorganic arsenic than other foods during its growth process. In April 2016, the FDA set a legal arsenic limit in infant rice cereal, at 100 parts per billion.

When arsenic is mentioned, many people associate it with a bygone poison. The type of quiet killer used in a murder mystery set on a train somewhere in Victorian England. It seems like a problem ...

As for rice itself, Consumer Reports laboratory tests in 2012 found high levels of inorganic arsenic in white rice and even higher levels in brown rice.

The culprit is arsenic, a metalloid mineral found in the soils in many parts of Minnesota and North Dakota. It can cause serious health problems if ingested in high enough levels over a long period.

Even folks exposed to arsenic levels below the federal limit of 10 micrograms per liter (ug/L) had an increased risk of heart disease, researchers reported Oct. 23 in the journal Environmental ...

Arsenic can enter soil or water due to weathering of arsenic-containing minerals in the earth, but the U.S. is the world’s leading user of arsenic, and since 1910 about 1.6 million tons have ...

Arsenic Levels in Hair and Toenails and L*-Values in Participants Arsenic concentrations in hair and toenails measured by the ICP-MS are shown in Table 1. As shown in a previous study, 23 the ...