arsenic

When most people hear “food contamination,” they think of bacteria present on unwashed fruits or vegetables, or undercooked meat. However, there are other ways for harmful contaminants to be present in food products. Angelia Seyfferth, a member of the...

Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the world’s population. But new experiments from Stanford University suggest that with climate change, production in major rice-growing regions with endemic soil arsenic will undergo a dramatic...

A group of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporating rice husks into the soil can decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield. The team was led...

The Food and Drug Administration is moving forward with new standards for levels of inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereals. In what the agency calls a draft guidance to the industry, it is proposing a threshold of 100 parts per...