Revealing the content of Arsenic in Rice

Rice is the staple food for people in many countries. But you know, if the rice is consumed every day it has the potential to contain arsenic which is highly toxic substances that harm the body.
The experts had been aware of rice as the main source of dietary arsenic. However, the results of recent studies in the U.S. Consumer Reports found that arsenic in different types of rice products. Encourage the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately set a safe level of arsenic in rice. FDA found arsenic levels exceed more than 60 rice products.
That interest, contained arsenic in rice is not because the toxic chemicals produced by the plant, but from the natural processes that cause these toxic elements accumulated from when rice is planted and grown. Then how arsenic, a toxic element often used to kill political opponents in the Middle Ages, can be contained in the rice?

Toxins can come from man-made and synthetic sources. Arsenic is a metalloid shimmery gray in the form of a naturally occurring element in the earth's crust. Then make their own way into the soil and contaminate ground water through weathering processes.
Arsenic is an element found in nature and in man-made products including pesticides. Low levels of arsenic found in soil, water and air. This element is taken up by plants as they grow, hence the beginning of the entry of arsenic into the body through the food we eat.
This element can change the working system of communication within cells and reduces the body's ability to work. In the end result of various diseases in the body such as diabetes, vascular disease and lung cancer, skin cancer, bladder cancer and heart disease.
Arsenic can be contained in vegetables, whole grains, fruits and seafood. According to the FDA, rice is a food that contains the highest levels of arsenic, and then followed by vegetables.
However, these elements also have uses for the industry such as is used for the manufacture of pesticides and wood preservatives. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states of inorganic arsenic can survive in the soil for over 45 years.
In the U.S. in some states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas found rising levels of arsenic in rice. This is possible because the area has a long history as a place of cultivation of cotton, where the industry is widely used insecticides.
Substance is absorbed into the ground, resulting in decades of land contains an element arsenic. Another thing that may cause the arsenic content in the farm fertilizer from chicken manure which they feed containing arsenic.
FDA is conducting a survey on arsenic content in rice does not have enough information to recommend that consumers change their consumption of rice. But both the FDA and Consumer Reports recommends that consumers eat more varied food intake and not just depend on rice alone ..