This post appeared originally at David Kroll's Terra Sigillata blog yesterday, 20 September 2012.
In the past 24 48 hours, do you recall hearing anything about arsenic in rice? If you're in the United States, the answer is very likely, “yes!”
A great many pixels were spilled yesterday when Consumer Reports and the US Food and Drug Administration released— almost simultaneously — analytical data on inorganic arsenic concentrations in 200 samples of commercial rice products, particularly those grown in the southern US.
You can’t do any better in understanding this story than reading, “Arsenic and Rice. Yes, again,” on Deborah Blum’s Elemental blog at Wired Science Blogs. Professor Blum has been discussing arsenic in the diet for a few years, an interest she developed while composing her superb book, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Science in Jazz Age New York....
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