Rice finding 812

Source evidence and comparison details for the Rice profile.

TatahMentan et al. 2020

Polished white rice (uncooked, as purchased) · Cadmium (Cd) · Sample count unreported.

Selected finding and reference

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

Sample count unreported. Basis: dry weight.

All values quantified as reported; source does not state LOD/LOQ or non-detect handling.

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

White Rice

Reported growing area.

Sampling, analysis and reporting limits

~0.1 g powdered sample, HNO3/HCl/H2O2 hotplate wet digestion (modified Akinyele and Shokunbi), Agilent 7900 ICP-MS; total As only (no speciation).

All values quantified as reported; source does not state LOD/LOQ or non-detect handling.

Source inconsistency noted (does not affect this value): Table 1 white-rice statistics may include the 9 rinse-washed results (28 white = 9 washed + 19 unwashed per Table 2; weighted Cd check (19x13 + 9x7.0)/28 = 11.1 µg/kg matches Table 1 white Cd means 11-12), so white-rice values may understate as-sold rice.

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 percentile75th 17none (µg/kg)

Table 1 (p.4); µg/kg (Dry Weight).

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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