Potential Exposure to Arsenic from Infant Rice Cereal

BACKGROUND: Rice is known to be high in arsenic, including in infant rice cereal. Although arsenic in drinking water is currently regulated, there are currently no US regulations regarding arsenic concentrations in food. OBJECTIVE: We used published values to estimate arsenic exposure via rice cerea...

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Autores principales: Carignan, Courtney C., Punshon, Tracy, Karagas, Margaret R., Cottingham, Kathryn L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5179225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27325082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.020
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author Carignan, Courtney C.
Punshon, Tracy
Karagas, Margaret R.
Cottingham, Kathryn L.
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description BACKGROUND: Rice is known to be high in arsenic, including in infant rice cereal. Although arsenic in drinking water is currently regulated, there are currently no US regulations regarding arsenic concentrations in food. OBJECTIVE: We used published values to estimate arsenic exposure via rice cereal relative to breast milk or formula for 6- to 12-month-old infants in the general US population. RESULTS: We found that arsenic exposure from 3 servings of rice cereal exceeded that of formula made with water containing arsenic at 10 mg/L, the US Environmental Protection Agency maximum contaminant level. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that rice cereal can markedly increase arsenic exposure among US infants relative to breast milk and formula.
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spelling pubmed-51792252017-01-01 Potential Exposure to Arsenic from Infant Rice Cereal Carignan, Courtney C. Punshon, Tracy Karagas, Margaret R. Cottingham, Kathryn L. Ann Glob Health Article BACKGROUND: Rice is known to be high in arsenic, including in infant rice cereal. Although arsenic in drinking water is currently regulated, there are currently no US regulations regarding arsenic concentrations in food. OBJECTIVE: We used published values to estimate arsenic exposure via rice cereal relative to breast milk or formula for 6- to 12-month-old infants in the general US population. RESULTS: We found that arsenic exposure from 3 servings of rice cereal exceeded that of formula made with water containing arsenic at 10 mg/L, the US Environmental Protection Agency maximum contaminant level. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that rice cereal can markedly increase arsenic exposure among US infants relative to breast milk and formula. 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5179225/ /pubmed/27325082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.020 Text en This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5179225/
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