Rice finding 1643

Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.

James et al. 2020

Rice grain (white, brown or 'other' colour; form otherwise unspecified) · Total mercury (tHg) · 29 rice samples (single result each).

Selected finding and reference

0.18–6.01 µg/kg (range)Range.

29 rice samples (single result each). Basis: unspecified (source does not state dry or as-sold weight).

No LOD/LOQ or non-detects reported; all 29 printed values are numeric.

HMI baseline position

Limited data: The source reports a range, percentile or extreme value; only a mean, median or sample result can be positioned against a reference. Missing evidence never means low contamination.

The source reports a range, percentile or extreme value; only a mean, median or sample result can be positioned against a reference.

Reference version and interpretation

Frozen evidence selection: 2026-10-22. Method: hmi-pooled-reference-v2.

No admitted reference

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.

Collection period

Collection date unreported

No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.

Geographic scope

all samples

All samples in the study.

Sampling, analysis and reporting limits

ICP-MS; 'quantified per ng of element / g sample'.

No LOD/LOQ or non-detects reported; all 29 printed values are numeric.

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 statisticOriginal resultDisplayed unit conversion
rangeSamples ranged from 0.18 to 6.01 ng of element / g.ng/g x 1

Abstract p.1; Table 1 p.2.

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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