Rice finding 274
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Polished, parboiled and brown rice · Total arsenic (tAs) · 35 retail rice samples (each analysed in triplicate).
Selected finding and reference
35 retail rice samples (each analysed in triplicate). Basis: unspecified (as-sold grain; no dry-weight correction stated).
2 polished samples <LOQ (0.038 mg/kg) excluded from range
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
2013–2015
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
All samples above LOQ
All samples in the study.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
Microwave-assisted HNO3/H2O2 digestion; ICP-MS (PerkinElmer Elan DRC II); As corrected for 40Ar35Cl+; Pb mean of 206/207/208 isotopes.
2 polished samples <LOQ (0.038 mg/kg) excluded from range
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 | of 37 analyzed samples, 35 showed total arsenic concentration higher than the LOQ, ranging from 0.061 to 0.660 mg kg−1 | mg/kg x 1000 |
Section 3.3, p.4.
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.