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Whole-food cereal grain, a dietary staple worldwide. Inorganic arsenic accumulation in rice is monitored by FDA, particularly for infant rice cereal where action levels apply, but cooked rice as a normal food is universally regarded as safe.

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11,824 products

What it is

Edible cereal grain (Oryza sativa), the seed of the rice plant, consumed as a staple food.

Carbohydrate staple; texture, bulk, and nutrition.

Why it's flagged

Inorganic arsenic in rice (action level 100 ppb in infant cereals)

What regulators actually say

"FDA established an action level of 100 ppb of inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal"

FDA — fda.gov

Regulatory status

United States — FDA

Whole food; FDA action level 100 µg/kg inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal

European Union — EFSA

Whole food; arsenic monitoring under Regulation 2023/465

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