Rice finding 410

Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.

Limmer et al. 2026

Polished white rice (from rough rice dried to 11% moisture, dehusked, polished) · Total arsenic (tAs) · Sample count unreported.

Selected finding and reference

178 µg/kg (75th percentile)75th percentile.

Sample count unreported. Basis: unspecified (grain dried to 11% moisture before dehusking; no dry-weight correction stated).

values below detection limit replaced by half the detection limit by the source (Methods 2.2); summary statistics include those substitutions

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

2018–2024

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

Geographic scope

all water managements

All samples in the study.

Sampling, analysis and reporting limits

Total As and Cd by microwave digestion ICP-MS/MS (Thermo iCap TQ); As species by 2% HNO3 extraction and IC-ICP-MS/MS.

values below detection limit replaced by half the detection limit by the source (Methods 2.2); summary statistics include those substitutions

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
75th percentileTable 1, 75^{th} percentile | Total As: 0.178mg/kg x 1000

Table 1 (Results §3), summary statistics across all water managements.

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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