The European Commission has tightened the rules on the presence of arsenic in food products. The allowed concentration of inorganic arsenic in white rice is lowered, while there are new limits for ...

Do you buy your apple juice from Walmart? If so, you might want to check the brand of your bottle before you sip. A voluntary recall for 9,535 of the eight-ounce Great Value Apple Juice sold at ...

The Food and Drug Administration has announced the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled “Inorganic Arsenic in Rice Cereals for Infants: Action Level.” “This guidance finalizes FDA’s ...

Researchers have discovered a simple solution to worrying levels of arsenic in our rice. Rice is the only major crop grown under flooded conditions. It is this flooding that releases inorganic arsenic ...

Rice cereal is often a baby’s first solid food, but it contains relatively high amounts of arsenic – a source of growing concern. Now an advocacy group reports that while the levels of this ...

Apple juice with more than 10 parts per billion of inorganic arsenic along with other factors could trigger enforcement action by FDA, the agency warned yesterday in guidance finalized ten years after ...

Estimates of dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic in food have been lowered after the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) looked again at data. The European Commission had asked its independent ...

Food manufacturers may wish to keep an eye on inorganic arsenic levels in ingredients and final products, after the EFSA panel on contaminants concluded that dietary exposure should be reduced.

Arsenic is well known acute poison, but it can also contribute to health problems, including cancers and cardiovascular diseases, if consumed at even relatively low concentrations over an extended ...

Beech-Nut Nutrition announced Tuesday that they are issuing a voluntary recall for one lot of their Beech-Nut Stage 1 Single Grain Rice Cereal and discontinuing the product going forward. The recall, ...

A lawsuit that’s stirring concern among drinkers of some California wine starts with a history lesson. The deaths of Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bolivar, King George III, King Faisal I and other ...