How RICE may cause cancer: Traces of arsenic are found on grains sold in UK shops - but cooking it in a coffee percolator removes the risk, say scientists
- Arsenic is getting into rice from old industrial pesticides, experts warn
- Rice products in the UK found to contain levels damaging to children
- Exposure can lead to health conditions including lung and bladder cancers
- Scientists in Belfast found steam in coffee percolator decontaminates it
Parents have been advised to change the way they cook rice in order to flush out traces of the poison arsenic.
The
chemical gets into the rice as a result of industrial contaminants and
pesticides that were used in the past and can remain in the flooded
paddy fields where the rice is grown for decades.
British
researchers have found the contaminant in rice and rice products sold
in this country at levels that could pose a health risk to children.
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