date:Oct 11, 2012
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There needs to be regulations on arsenic in food -- in particular, baby rice, said Allan Smith, director of the Arsenic Health Effects Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
But not everyone believes there is reason to panic.
The U.S. rice industry does not believe that the levels of arsenic found in rice and rice products pose a threat to human health, said Stacy Fitzgerald-Redd, a spokesperson for the industry group USA Rice Federation, which has not taken a positio