Rice finding 2684
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Household rice (raw rice brought from home by a family member); form not stated · Methylmercury (MeHg) · 391 household rice samples (one per mother-child pair).
Selected finding and reference
391 household rice samples (one per mother-child pair). Basis: unspecified (basis not stated in main text; lab detail in Supplementary Materials, not in text copy).
All measurements exceeded the limits of detection (Lab analyses, p. 3); LOD value not given in main text
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
2013–2014
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
All
All samples in the study.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
Rice MeHg per Liang et al. and US EPA Method 1630, cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CV-AAS).
All measurements exceeded the limits of detection (Lab analyses, p. 3); LOD value not given in main text
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 |
|---|---|---|
| range | 2.2 (0.32, 15) | ng/g = µg/kg (x 1) |
Table 2, row 'Rice MeHg (ng/g)', p. 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.