The following may be of interest, especially to those of you performing site specific risk assessments on uptake from rice grown in residential padi fields!

http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2009/may/arsenicinriceresearch

Seriously, it's slightly concerning that the UK limit for arsenic in food was "set in 1959 before it was known that inorganic arsenic can cause cancer".

Regards

Chris

Christopher Ward (BSc, PhD, CSci, CChem, MRSC)
Contaminated Land Officer
Environmental Health Division
Dacorum Borough Council
Civic Centre
Marlowes
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1HH
Tel: 01442 228441
Fax: 01442 228477


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