Arsenic in rice: An emerging challenge in context of food security
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https://doi.org/10.18686/fnc.v1i1.1Keywords:
rice; arsenic; health threat; food safety; metabolic disordersAbstract
Arsenic speciation in food and diet was assessed for human exposure through dietary approaches because it seems as a critical public health issue all over the world. Globally, rice is a vital commodity in world hunger and vastly important for survival of human race. Rice is widely used for the formulation of baby formulas, breakfast cereals, bread, cookies, cakes, rice drinks and other foodstuff. Arsenic is concentrated at higher rates in rice grains and containing more than 85% of total arsenic forms that poses serious health aliments o human as well as animal life on the planet. Meanwhile, Arsenic contaminated water and soil may induce hazardous affects to humans through water-soil-plant pathway.
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