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Arsenic In Rice: Consumer Groups Pressure FDA To Set Standards
By MARY CLARE JALONICK 09/19/12 04:45 PM ET     


Arsenic in rice? Consumer groups are pushing for federal guidance on how much arsenic should be allowed in the food.

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration may consider new standards for the levels of arsenic in rice as consumer groups are calling for federal guidance on how much of the carcinogen can be present in food.

So far, FDA officials say they have found no evidence that suggests rice is unsafe to eat. The agency has studied the issue for decades but is in the middle of conducting a new study of 1,200 samples of grocery-store rice products – short and long-grain rice, adult and baby cereals, drinks and even rice cakes – to measure arsenic levels......................>>>>...........................>>>>...............................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/arsenic-rice_n_1896505.html

I wonder what competing interest decided that so much light should be shone on this issue?

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I wonder what competing interest decided that so much light should be shone on this issue?

Attacking rice is anti Chinese.

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Attacking rice is anti Chinese.

Pro-potato.

It's a ploy by Mike Crapo, Jim Risch, Raul Labrador and Michael K. Simpson, and obviously they're all white, protestant, racist Republicans.

Chinese population control