Infant Arsenic Levels Still High After FDA’s Proposed Limit
On April 1st, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a limit of 100 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in infant rice milk. Now, even after that proposal, a new study claims that babies who consume rice cereals and similar products had higher concentrations of arsenic in their urine compared to babies who had not consumed rice products.
Published in JAMA Pediatrics (an American Medical Association publication,) the study was based on data from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study in which researchers analyzed the eating habits of about 750 infants of mothers enrolled in the study.