Rice finding 2025
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Parboiled rice · Inorganic arsenic (iAs) · 70 rice samples with reported iAs (of 2211 rice samples in FoodEx 'Rice'; the rest had tAs only).
Selected finding and reference
70 rice samples with reported iAs (of 2211 rice samples in FoodEx 'Rice'; the rest had tAs only). Basis: whole weight (as reported to EFSA; dry-matter results converted to whole weight using moisture data); raw rice as sold/sampled.
23% left-censored; MB substitution. This finding is the MB 95th percentile.
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
2003–2012
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
Rice, parboiled
Rice variety or type within one study.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
Heterogeneous member-state methods; for iAs the most reported detection method was ICP-MS (66.8%); 97 rice samples gave iAs as sum of As(III)+As(V).
23% left-censored; MB substitution. This finding is the MB 95th percentile.
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 | Rice, parboiled 70 23 92.8 105.1 117.4 234.0 234.0 234.0 | none |
Table 3, 95th percentile columns; p.17.
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.