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05/10/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Researchers have found illegal levels of ARSENIC in baby rice food products

Parents who feed their infants baby rice food products be warned: You’re feeding your children food laced with arsenic. Researchers hailing from the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast have found illegal levels of arsenic in a variety of rice-based baby foods. The study was conducted in response to the European Union […]

08/08/2016 / By Greg White

Researchers have found an natural solution to getting arsenic out of rice

Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that adding rice husk to soil can minimize noxious inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by approximately 25 to 50 percent without negatively impacting yield. Angelia Seyfferth, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, headed a […]

01/21/2016 / By Julie Wilson

After contaminating U.S. chicken with arsenic for more than 65 years, FDA finally phases out last arsenic-based drug used in animal feed

Healthy food activists rang in the New Year with an exciting victory in the fight for cleaner, healthier food, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially kicked arsenic-based animal drugs to the curb; hopefully for good. As of Dec. 31, 2015, the FDA withdrew approval for all applications of nitarsone (or Histostat), an […]

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