Rice finding 455
Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.
Rice (form not specified; ground before analysis) · Total arsenic (tAs) · 82 rice samples (>=500 g each).
Selected finding and reference
82 rice samples (>=500 g each). Basis: unspecified.
Values <LOD treated as not detected and replaced by 1/2 LOD when calculating means (Section 2.6); ranges appear to be of detected values
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
2021–2022
No year-by-year sample register is reconstructed from this summary.
Geographic scope
Rice (n = 82)
Purchase or reporting market; growing origin not identified.
Sampling, analysis and reporting limits
microwave digestion HNO3/H2O2; ICP-MS (Thermo iCAP RQ); total As (no speciation).
Values <LOD treated as not detected and replaced by 1/2 LOD when calculating means (Section 2.6); ranges appear to be of detected values
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 | 0.064~0.232 | mg/kg x 1000 |
Table 1, Rice column (Heavy metals, mg/kg); text p.14-15.
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.