Heavy metal concentrations in rice that meet safety standards can still pose a risk to human health

National safety standard for concentrations of arsenic and cadmium in commercial rice in China are sufficiently high to pose non-negligible health risks especially for chronically exposed children, according to a regionally resolved probability and fuzzy analysis for China.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Renhao Wei, Chang Chen, Meng Kou, Zhaoyang Liu, Zhen Wang, Junxiong Cai, Wenfeng Tan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00723-7
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Summary:National safety standard for concentrations of arsenic and cadmium in commercial rice in China are sufficiently high to pose non-negligible health risks especially for chronically exposed children, according to a regionally resolved probability and fuzzy analysis for China.
ISSN:2662-4435