Posted on 09/20/2024 1:45:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
cientists at the University of Delaware have been searching for ways to minimize levels of dangerous toxic metals in rice for infant health.
Heavy metals like arsenic and cadmium are present in rice, a staple in baby food, and levels depend on how it's grown. Exposure to these metals in babies and young children can have serious consequences, potentially delaying brain development.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is drafting new regulations for heavy metals in baby food as part of its Closer to Zero Action Plan.
"Our work could hopefully help shape policy," soil biogeochemist Professor Angelia Seyfferth, co-author of the study, said in a statement.
She explained that the "challenge" that guided their research was to minimize multiple dangerous heavy metals simultaneously, but they found that "There really isn't one that is universal across all soils."
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Putting rice through multiple rinse cycles helps quite a bit.
The rice-cookers where you don’t rinse the rice at all are the worst.
Their next goal will be to reduce the rice in the Bugs they feed to babies.
Yesterday, it was lead in cinnamon. Anybody have a guess what tomorrow’s will be?
Stop using cheap shit-tier foreign rice with all that crap in the soil. To get good quality rice, USA has very good soil, especially California Rice. Lindberg brand is expensive, but worth it.
I find it interesting how the FDA and “science” (rightly) spends so much time and energy reducing and researching heavy metals in rice to undetectable parts per trillion
But simply declares its totally safe to give 6 months-old babies the mRNA covid vax.
We can detect extremely minute levels of subtances today, which would have been impossible even 10 years ago.
The dose makes the poison. Substances at parts per trillion have no detectable effect. The regulators simply "assume" they do.
Heavy metals don’t hurt you. My mom painted my chew toys with leftover lead house paint back in the 50’s and I am just fine.
The dose makes the poison.
Virtually anything becomes poisonous in large enough doses. This includes oxygen and water, things we cannot live without.
There are many trace elements which are necessary for life, but poisonous in large amounts. Metals such as selenium, iron, copper, cobalt and zinc are essential, but poisonous at higher concentrations.
The concept that toxicity is a linear progression to zero is false.
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