Rice finding 1673
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Grain (rice and maize pooled) · Total mercury (tHg) · Sample count unreported.
Selected finding and reference
Sample count unreported. Basis: fresh weight.
none reported
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
2015
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
All power-plant-area grain samples
All samples in the study.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
HNO3 microwave digestion (EPA 7473-based), AFS (AFS-230E) total Hg.
none reported
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 |
|---|---|---|
| max | Hg concentration ... were the 95 percentile ... 62.02 ng/g FW for grains | ng/g x 1 |
Methods, Exposure assessment, p.7; Table 5.
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.