Rice finding 1207
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Raw white rice grain (milled), three brands grown in central Thailand · Total chromium (Cr) · 3 rice brands (3); 20 cooking combinations.
Selected finding and reference
3 rice brands (3); 20 cooking combinations. Basis: dry weight (raw grain oven-dried at 65 C for 48 h, then milled).
No non-detects reported; instrument detection limit 20 ng/L in digest solution (900 ng/L Fe), not converted to a mass-basis LOD by the source.
HMI baseline position
High · HMI dry-grain Cr reference · 1 sampling family. Mean as reported: 270 µg/kg. HMI median 55; Q1 34; Q3 67 µg/kg. 1 family. Not a safety grade.
Low is below Q1; Moderate includes Q1 through Q3; High is above Q3. Reporting bounds must give the same category throughout.
This is an external comparison; the finding does not set the reference.
Sensitivity to weighting
Equal subgroup weight within each family: High. The position is unchanged under this alternative. This check does not address all sampling, rounding or analytical uncertainty.
Collection period
Collection date unreported
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
Raw Rice
Purchase or reporting market; growing origin not identified.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
HNO3 hot-plate digestion (95 C); ICP-MS (Agilent 7500a/7500c).
No non-detects reported; instrument detection limit 20 ng/L in digest solution (900 ng/L Fe), not converted to a mass-basis LOD by the source.
Shared samples and study overlap
Subgroup rows, statistics of the same subgroup and the study total share samples; they are not independent results.
Each table row describes a food/analyte result. Repeated rows do not add independent samples or datasets. No cross-study trend is calculated in this comparison mode.
Reported values, conversion and source locator
| Source statistic | Original result | Displayed unit conversion |
|---|---|---|
| mean | Raw Rice ... 0.27±0.03 (Cr) | mg/kg x 1000 |
Original SD: 0.03 mg/kg.
Table 4, row 'Raw Rice'; p.377.
No moisture, cooking-yield or species conversion is applied to the original finding above. Any basis conversion used for its HMI comparison is stated separately with the numerical target.
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Reference and scope
HMI dry-grain Cr reference · 1 sampling family. Dry-weight grain, µg/kg dry weight. Distribution of subgroup median concentration values.
| Reference (µg/kg) | Q1 | Median | Q3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary HMI reference | 34 | 55 | 67 |
| Alternative weighting | 34 | 55 | 67 |
5 reference units; 1 sampling family. Counts describe evidence units, not independent studies or certainty.
| Contributing family | Reference units | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Myat Soe et al. (2023) | 5 | 100% |
Methods
HMI calculates a pooled distribution of subgroup medians across the admitted sampling families. HMI pools subgroup medians from every compatible rice sampling family in the evidence ledger for this analyte, material and basis: published subgroup medians, medians HMI calculates from printed per-sample values and WHO GEMS/Food region-by-year medians (random sampling only). Each family has equal total weight; subgroups have equal weight within a family. Non-detects stay as zero-to-limit intervals, so quartiles carry lower and upper bounds. Means, ranges and maxima never enter as observations. Dry-weight, native-moisture and cooked results are kept in separate references; no moisture conversion is assumed.
Inverse weighted empirical CDF; midpoint at exact cumulative-weight boundaries. At least four reference units and a definitely positive Q1–Q3 spread are required. This is a display eligibility rule, not statistical validation.
Limitations
An evidence-library reference, not a probability sample of the world rice market. Sampling families differ in frame (retail, farm, contaminated sites, monitoring) and period; GEMS/Food regions are reporting regions, not growing origins. Many submissions are non-detects with differing limits, which widens the bounds. This is the only compatible family for this scope in the completed rice ledger; a single-family reference cannot represent other markets. A position is descriptive concentration, not a safety or compliance judgment.
Admitted source families
Reference version and interpretation
Frozen evidence selection: 2026-10-22. Method: hmi-pooled-reference-v2.
hmi-pooled-reference-v2:rice-dry-Cr:2a59881cf8c5
The reference is computed by HMI from admitted evidence, not copied from a study baseline. It describes the evidence currently in this scope; it is not a worldwide or current-lot benchmark. Source, year and region filters do not change it. Different HMI scopes are not one common ranking.