RICE SUPPLIER AND TESTING BRIEF Prepared 18 October 2026 Material/form: __________ Intended food/use: __________ Market: __________ Consumer age group: __________ Supplier/lot: __________ Harvest/origin: __________ 1 - Identify the purchase Record rice form, intended product, destination market, consumer age group, supplier and lot, harvest and growing origin. Evidence received / missing / follow-up: ____________________ 2 - Select the applicable requirements Match analyte, category and marketed-food basis to the primary instrument. Include nickel for EU rice and inorganic arsenic for the relevant rice use; retain the instrument version and date. Evidence received / missing / follow-up: ____________________ 3 - Request the laboratory evidence Obtain the sampling plan and lot link, measured species, units, moisture/preparation basis, methods, reporting limits, recoveries and uncertainty. Resolve a missing inorganic-arsenic result rather than treating total arsenic as the same measurement. Evidence received / missing / follow-up: ____________________ 4 - Interpret the result Compare compatible bases and document the decision rule and unresolved sampling or analytical uncertainty. A historical occurrence range supplies context, not a shipment acceptance result. Evidence received / missing / follow-up: ____________________ 5 - Verify changes and the finished food Reassess cultivar, origin, irrigation, milling and formulation changes with suitable grain and finished-product results. Record what remains unknown and who resolves the release decision. Evidence received / missing / follow-up: ____________________ SELECTED DATED REQUIREMENTS Units: ug/kg means micrograms per kilogram. EU consolidation: 19 August 2026. Values are ug/kg; no moisture or cooking conversion. This is not an exhaustive compliance checklist. EU - Rice - cadmium: 150 ug/kg (0.15 mg/kg). Annex I 3.2.12.3. EU - Non-parboiled white rice - inorganic arsenic: 150 ug/kg (0.15 mg/kg). Annex I 3.4.1.1. EU - Parboiled or husked rice; rice flour - inorganic arsenic: 250 ug/kg (0.25 mg/kg). Separate entries: Annex I 3.4.1.2 and 3.4.1.3. EU - Rice destined for infant and young-child foods - inorganic arsenic: 100 ug/kg (0.10 mg/kg). Ingredient scope; Annex I 3.4.1.5. EU - Non-alcoholic rice-based drinks - inorganic arsenic: 30 ug/kg (0.030 mg/kg). Drink scope; Annex I 3.4.1.6. EU - Rice other than husked rice - nickel: 1,500 ug/kg (1.5 mg/kg). Applies from 1 July 2026; Annex I 3.6.11.2. EU - Husked rice - nickel: 2,000 ug/kg (2.0 mg/kg). Applies from 1 July 2026; Annex I 3.6.11.3. US - Infant rice cereal - inorganic arsenic: 100 ug/kg (100 ppb). Final nonbinding guidance action level for infant rice cereal; FDA considers other factors in enforcement. EU default basis: edible food as placed on the market unless specified otherwise. Nickel transition: food lawfully marketed before 1 July 2026 may remain until its minimum-durability/use-by date under Article 10. Justify applicable processing factors under Article 3. The FDA infant-cereal action level is not a universal raw-rice limit. PRIMARY TEXTS https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:02023R0915-20260819 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1987/oj/eng https://www.fda.gov/media/97234/download EVIDENCE AND LIMITS https://heavymetalindex.com/ingredients/rice Literature measurements do not certify a lot. Historical country labels do not rank current suppliers. Resolve material/species/basis, sampling, reporting-limit and decision-uncertainty gaps before documenting a release decision. This brief does not prescribe a universal assay panel or sampling plan.