Rice finding 2678
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Rice products sold in Europe with European country of origin (presumed rice grain; form not stated) · Methylmercury (MeHg) · 12 retail rice products (packs homogenised, ~100 g milled subsample).
Selected finding and reference
12 retail rice products (packs homogenised, ~100 g milled subsample). Basis: unspecified (milled as-sold product; no moisture correction stated).
No non-detects reported; all values above LOD (tHg LOD 0.02, MeHg LOD 0.12 µg/kg)
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
Collection date unreported
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
Europe
Reported growing area.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
Total Hg: HNO3 hot-block digestion + BrCl, CV-AFS; MeHg: TMAH microwave extraction, thiol/thiourea SPE preconcentration, HPLC-CV-AFS; 19-sample subset also by SS-ID-GC-ICPMS.
No non-detects reported; all values above LOD (tHg LOD 0.02, MeHg LOD 0.12 µg/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 statistic | Original result | Displayed unit conversion |
|---|---|---|
| max | the highest measured sample to be 6.45 ng/g from a European country | none (µg/kg) |
Results and discussion, p. 9; Figure 3 caption.
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.