Illegal inorganic arsenic levels have been found in 75% of baby rice food products

It won't do much for babies, but Basmati rice is your best bet for lowest arsenic content rice.

Semolina may be another option.

It is easy to make and doesn't need liquidising.

I used to feed it to mine when they were small.

I do not know about arsenic levels in semolina.

There is porridge but it disagreed with one baby also mashed bananas are recommended.

If the levels of arsenic are high in baby rice why in God's name is the product still being sold?

I tell people never eat anything that says its pure, clean, healthy, vegan, or for kids.

the atomic # of arsenic?

33

Most of the world is

Can someone please explain why there is even a level that can be detected that makes it illegal to have in there?

It just shouldn't be there in the first place right?

You get it out by passing hot water through it while cooking it and discarding the water a few times, basically boiling it out. Individuals are generally too lazy and impatient to do this and manufacturers of baby food would be reluctant to do it because it adds labor and therefore cost.

Arsenic is an element. It occurs naturally in the environment so it is going to turn up in rice because rice eats a lot of water and water tends to be where arsenic turns up.

Rice is a non food, it's just a filler. It's an incomplete protein and basically just carbs.

I get that, but this specifically states this is inorganic arsenic, which I presumed means added, not occurring naturally. I'll change the heading.

It comes from manufacturing processes, but the main form found in rice is from groundwater contaminated with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Inorganic simply means that it is not compounded with carbon. And removing it through the cooking process is the same as stated.

Not True!!!

85% of the rice consumed in the US, is grown in the US. That rice is fertilized with chicken manure scraped from commercial chicken houses. The manure, along with feathers, and even dead birds, are spread on the fields before the rice is planted.

The chickens are fed arsenic, among other noxious chemicals, which ends up in the chicken, and RICE, that you eat.

Big corporations, with government consent, are poisoning you. If you don't believe me, just research Roundup sprayed on wheat, just before harvest.

The USDA and FDA no longer inspect chicken processed at commercial processors. They allow the company to do it. How do you think that is going to work out?

While not good for you, Arsenic doesn't accumulate in the body, so if not overdone it is flushed out and won't hurt you.