Rice finding 1697
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Rice grain unspecified (market rice, crushed to powder before digestion) · Total mercury (tHg) · 1239 rice samples.
Selected finding and reference
1239 rice samples. Basis: unspecified (no drying or moisture correction stated).
Source substitutes LOD/2 for results below LOD (section 2.4); LOD values are not reported. Statistics include those substituted values; minima (and medians/percentiles where the detection rate is below 50%) equal the substitution value, not a measurement.
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
2020–2022
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
Eastern Henan
Reported growing area.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
ICP-MS after microwave digestion of 0.3 g powder in 7 mL HNO3 (section 2.2); no arsenic speciation step described.
Source substitutes LOD/2 for results below LOD (section 2.4); LOD values are not reported. Statistics include those substituted values; minima (and medians/percentiles where the detection rate is below 50%) equal the substitution value, not a measurement.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 95th percentile | 95th 0.002 | mg/kg x 1000 |
Table 4 (levels of heavy metals in rice from different areas in Henan province, mg/kg), Eastern Henan rows, column Hg; page 6.
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.