Rice finding 1876

Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.

Carey et al. 2020

Polished (white) rice · Inorganic arsenic (iAs) · 10 rice samples (Table 1 per-zone 'No. of values' sum to 1093).

Selected finding and reference

2 µg/kg (minimum)Minimum.

10 rice samples (Table 1 per-zone 'No. of values' sum to 1093). Basis: dry weight (freeze-dried grain).

Source states LoD 3 ug/kg for iAs and DMA (Methods) and '< 2' in Abstract/Results; Table 1 prints numeric values for low results without flagging non-detects.

HMI baseline position

Limited data: Held: printed value is at or below the method LoD of 3 ug/kg (abstract gives <2); likely an LoD-substituted or below-LoD value, treat as bounded <=3 ug/kg. Missing evidence never means low contamination.

Held: printed value is at or below the method LoD of 3 ug/kg (abstract gives <2); likely an LoD-substituted or below-LoD value, treat as bounded <=3 ug/kg.

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

C. Brazil

Reported growing area.

Sampling, analysis and reporting limits

Freeze-dried, ball-milled grain; 1% HNO3 microwave extraction (CEM MARS 6, 95 C), H2O2 oxidation of arsenite to arsenate; IC (Thermo IC5000, AS7 column) coupled to ICP-MS (Thermo iCAP Q, m/z 75, He collision mode).

Source states LoD 3 ug/kg for iAs and DMA (Methods) and '< 2' in Abstract/Results; Table 1 prints numeric values for low results without flagging non-detects.

Held: printed value is at or below the method LoD of 3 ug/kg (abstract gives <2); likely an LoD-substituted or below-LoD value, treat as bounded <=3 ug/kg.

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
minC. Brazil | inorg. As | No. of values 10 | Min. (ug/kg): 2none

Table 1, C. Brazil, inorg. As, Min. (ug/kg); pp.713-715.

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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