Rice finding 2641

Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.

EFSA et al. 2024

Rice grain, all types grouped (FoodEx2 'Rice and similar') · Dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) · 439 analytical results (rice DMA); 411 rice MMA results.

Selected finding and reference

79.2 µg/kg (95th percentile)95th percentile.

439 analytical results (rice DMA); 411 rice MMA results. Basis: whole weight (as stated for the final data set).

EFSA LB/UB substitution: LB sets <LOD/<LOQ to 0, UB to the reported LOD/LOQ; no imputation by this extraction. LB = UB at this 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

2012–2022

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

Geographic scope

Rice and similar (all rice types)

All samples in the study.

Sampling, analysis and reporting limits

Mainly ICP-MS (87% of DMA results), mostly LC-ICP-MS (72% DMA; 90% MMA).

EFSA LB/UB substitution: LB sets <LOD/<LOQ to 0, UB to the reported LOD/LOQ; no imputation by this extraction. LB = UB at this 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 statisticOriginal resultDisplayed unit conversion
95th percentileHRP LB 79.2 UB 79.2none

Table 9 (p.54), HRP column.

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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