Showing posts with label Revealing the content of Arsenic in Rice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revealing the content of Arsenic in Rice. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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?