Newsweek (4/25, Firger) reports that research indicated “infants who ate rice and rice-based products had significantly higher urinary inorganic arsenic concentrations than those who didn’t eat any foods that contain the grain.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics. Investigators “analyzed data on 759 infants that were part of the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study that took place between 2011 and 2014.”
CNN (4/25, LaMotte) reports that the researchers found that “concentrations of arsenic were twice as high in the urine of infants who ate white or brown rice than those who ate no rice.”
The NPR (4/25, Aubrey) “The Salt” blog reports, “earlier this month, the” FDA “proposed a limit of 100 parts per billion for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal. Inorganic arsenic is the type that public health officials worry about the most.”