The arsenic enters into the rice when it is grown, according to Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He explained the rice with the highest levels of arsenic is from Texas and Louisiana, and along the Gulf coast where fields were used to grow cotton a century ago.
"When there was cotton there they had to treat the cotton with arsenic pesticides to control the bowl weevil," he said. "Now a century later, that arsenic is still in the soil, the rice is very effective at pulling it out of the soil in and it concentrates in the rice."
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They certainly won't discuss the Japanese rice being sold worldwide without origin of growth labels. The Japanese rice is chocked full of radiation from Fukushima.
ReplyDeleteThe FDA has checked for dangerous levels of arsenic in about 600 samples out of 1,200 they obtained. So far they have found NONE!!! Hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteNo offense intended 8:34, but I will take the word of consumer reports over the fda. Everything out of the government is a lie.
ReplyDeleteAgree 8:54.
ReplyDeleteUseless media. They could have named some brands to avoid.
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