Organic Brown Rice, How much are you paying ?

[haikuman]

Hey Joe what are you doing with that Arsenic gun in your hand . . . I couldn't help myself *(:>* miley-shocked003:

I think that is about Chinese produced rice . . . ?


http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/new...-1.1551384

http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-110573...ic-in-rice

The new study says arsenic levels of 200 microgrammes or more per kilo are found in significant percentages of rice grown in China, Bangladesh, Japan, Pakistan and China as well Europe and the United States.

“This study raises considerable concerns over the threat to human health,” it warns.Independent commentator Parvez Haris, a scientist at the De Montfort University in Leicester, said it was important for people to realise that they do not have to stop eating rice, given its value in nutrition.

“Our own study revealed that some varieties of aromatic rice from Bangladesh are very low in arsenic and can significantly reduce arsenic exposure in humans,” he said.

“Unfortunately, in the absence of regulations requiring labelling of rice packets, showing how much arsenic is present, it would be very difficult for the consumers to select low-arsenic rice from supermarket shelves.” Regulatory bodies should change labelling so that consumers “can make an informed decision,” he said. (AFP)


http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Arsenic+in+Chinese+Rice&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

http://oryza.com/content/rice-grown-phil...rice-study

Rice Grown in Philippines is Arsenic-Safe, Claims PhilRice Study

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Dec 27, 2012
Arsenic levels in rice grown in the Philippines are within safe limits as the water used for irrigation in the country is arsenic-free, according to the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
Arsenic in rice has become a matter of concern in recent months after a report by Consumer Reports suggested that arsenic levels in rice sold in the U.S. may be harmful to human health. Though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has undertaken a study to find safe levels for arsenic in rice, it has said that rice consumers need not panic over it now.

The PhilRice conducted a study over arsenic levels in domestically grown rice and found that rice from across the country was safe for human consumption. PhilRice chemist Joy Bartolome Duldulao said, “Unlike some 60 rices and rice products in the US that the Food and Drug Administration reported to contain cancer-causing arsenic, locally grown rice varieties are safe from it.” He added, “Our local rices are safe as our irrigation water is arsenic-free.”

Duldulao said that he used rice from several parts of the Philippines in the study and an analysis showed that arsenic levels in the samples were below the ICP-OES detection limit of 15 parts per billion (ppb), compared to the global average of 80-200 ppb. He also said that rice consumers in the Philippines should be careful about consuming imported rice as imported rice has not yet been tested for arsenic levels.
While, the Philippines does not have any standards for arsenic levels in rice, Australia and New Zealand have a upper limit of 1,000 ppb total arsenic in cereals and China has a limit of 150 ppb inorganic arsenic for rice.


http://www.scidev.net/global/farming/new...ice-1.html


Global debate grows over arsenic levels in rice
[MANILA] Following alarming reports from the United States about the discovery of high arsenic levels in rice sold in the US market, experts from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines have reassured consumers that rice is safe to eat.

In a statement released to SciDev.Net, IRRI said that "that there is no evidence to show that people should stop eating rice grown in Asia because of concerns about arsenic." But it stopped short of denying claims that arsenic was present in rice.

The preliminary results of a study of 200 rice samples, published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week (19 September), showed that sampled rice contained average levels of 3.5 to 6.7 micrograms of inorganic arsenic per average serving.

Separately, Consumer Reports — a marketplace standards nongovernmental organisation that earlier pressured the FDA to define standards for arsenic in apple juice — announced on 18 September that it had found arsenic levels in rice of up to 8.7 micrograms per average serving.

It is difficult to tell at what point arsenic levels in rice become dangerous, as, while there is an official standard for water, there is none for food.

"Arsenic content in rice varies according to its source said Duldulao, adding that reports by scientists in the region indicate that rice arsenic levels in countries outside Asia are higher.

IRRI said that there are parts of Bangladesh where water with high arsenic levels is used in rice production. The organisation is currently working with its local Bangladeshi partners to help reduce these rice arsenic levels, through breeding new varieties, and to help farmers adopt crop management strategies that can reduce arsenic uptake.

This article has been produced by our South-East Asia and Pacific news desk.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.p...senic-free

http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-32405...senic-free


Beginning of article
SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ, Nueva Ecija - The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has assured the public that locally grown rice in the country is arsenic-free because Filipino farmers are using irrigation water that are free from the said cancer-causing element.

PhilRice chemist Joy Duldulao said that she found in her recent study that rice sampled all over the country have safe levels of arsenic.

"These samples included 18 milled rice of commonly grown varieties, with one from a commercial outlet, and seven brown rice," she said.

The samples were analyzed using an inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES), and their arsenic …

[haikuman]

One m ore thing *(:>*
About chinese Rice . . . .

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/...al-economy

Editor's note: Of the world's 50,000 edible plant species, only a few hundred find their way to menus around the globe. Of those, just three — rice, wheat and maize — make up two-thirds of the human food supply. And only rice is responsible for feeding half the world, or more than 3.5 billion people.

In other words, rice is important. So important, in fact, that a tweak to the way rice is grown, sold or eaten can send ripples through the world economy. Earlier this year, government subsidies for rice in Thailand, where 30 percent of the world's crop originates, did just that. Prices everywhere shot up, though it looks like any looming instability has been offset by other exporters, namely India, steadying the market.

Still, the point is rice in one place affects millions. In Indonesia, Suharto coaxed a people into growing the grain and changed a culture. In India, the genetically modified golden rice could save millions of lives and, yet, may never get into the ground. Rice 2.0 is GlobalPost's look at a tiny grain with a giant footprint.

BEIJING, China — Xu Limin goes out of her way to make sure the rice she buys wasn’t grown in southern China.

“I’m not too picky about every single food item, but rice is the most important thing, so I want the cleanest,” said Xu, a 28-year-old office worker in Beijing, chatting as she shopped for groceries in an organic supermarket.

“Everyone knows rice from the south might be contaminated so I want rice from the north, or even something imported.”

On a scale of China’s food safety issues, pollution-tainted rice might just be the biggest problem of all. Rice is the country’s national staple, a grain deeply intertwined with history, culture and all things Chinese.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...45772.html

REVIEW & OUTLOOKMay 22, 2013, 12:47 p.m. ET
China's Toxic Rice Bowl
Elections are the only antidote for cadmium rice and other environmental horrors.

REVIEW & OUTLOOKMay 22, 2013, 12:47 p.m. ET
China's Toxic Rice Bowl
Elections are the only antidote for cadmium rice and other environmental horrors.

In January 2012, an estimated 20 tons of cadmium was dumped in the Longjiang River in Guangxi, wiping out fish farms along the waterway. After a five-day cover-up, tap water was turned off for more than three million residents of Liuzhou city. The authorities found seven different companies were discharging heavy metals; cadres from two were punished, but the main culprit wasn't identified.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/to...40034.html

Toxic Rice Highlights China's Lack of Openness on Pollution
2013-05-24

Illegally high levels of poisonous heavy metals found in rice grown in southern China have highlighted a lack of openness among officials charged with environmental protection and food safety, activists said this week.

Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong took the unprecedented step last week of naming rice producers whose products contained "excessive amounts" of cadmium, amid growing public pressure for transparency over the scandal.

Of 18 batches of rice tested during quarterly spot-checks, eight were found to contain excessive amounts of the carcinogenic heavy metal, the Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Samples of the tainted rice were taken from two college canteens and two other restaurants in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, and revealed readings of between 0.21 and 0.4 milligrams of cadmium per kilogram, in excess of a national limit of 0.2 milligrams, the paper said.

However, expert studies revealed as early as 2011 excessive cadmium levels in around 10 percent of rice sold across China.


Sichuan-based environmental activist Yang Yong said the rice had likely been contaminated by the water used to irrigate the rice paddies in which it is grown.

"Heavy metals can be found in water and in soil, and can be transferred into food," Yang said. "This can have a huge impact as it accumulates in the human body."

Causes sought

According to Xue Shikiu, a water resources management expert at the University of Florida, there are three main sources of heavy metal contamination of crops.

"The first is from natural minerals which permeate into the water supply through weathering," Xue said. "The second is from industrial pollution, and the third is pollution from various sources during agricultural production."

Some media reports focused on recent investigations in Hunan, which also revealed higher-than-permitted levels of heavy metals in rice grown near the Dongting Lake.

Experts told local media that local farmers' fertilization of the fields could be a factor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22099990

10 April 2013 Last updated at 23:23 GMT

US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead'
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News, New Orleans

Analysis of commercially available rice imported into the US has revealed it contains levels of lead far higher than regulations suggest are safe.

Some samples exceeded the "provisional total tolerable intake" (PTTI) set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a factor of 120.

[NewtonMP2100]

do they make Rice-A-Roni with orgas*ic brown rice.......???

[haikuman]

NewtonMP2100 wrote:
do they make Rice-A-Roni with orgas*ic brown rice.......???

yup Newt it's to die for *(:>* miley-shocked003:

[Mac-A-Matic]

haikuman wrote:
Your above statement seems very unclear and I am not sure where you are getting your data

Once again you provide an excessive amount of verbage that says nothing.

As I stated above, I spent a day at CLSU where I met with professors focused on rice production in the Philippines. I also spoke with people in the supply chain: middlemen who buy palay from the farmers selling it to the millers and millers who buy from the middlemen, process the rice and bring it to market.

While I'm sure IRRI is doing good work, this is not what I'm hearing from the people involved in rice production in central Luzon. The imported rice costs anywhere from 2 to 3 times the cost of local rice and much of that is kept in place by politicians profiteering off of the import of foreign rice.

the bottom line is that the farmer is still making next to nothing on their labor for rice.

But I did do a quick google search about cost of rice in the Philippines and you can get a 50 kilo sack of rice delivered door to door for $52 - that's $1.05 per kilo - and that's being shipped in from Palawan.
http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+c...ck+of+rice&event=Search+Ranking,Position,1-7,7

I don't see why anyone in the Philippines would need to order rice from outside the country - especially if it's rice grown in the Philippines.

[haikuman]

Once again I am smelling something too *(:>* miley-laughing001: