According to Natural News, Consumer
Reports tested 223 samples of rice products in 2012 and found significant
levels of arsenic in most of them, including inorganic arsenic (the really
toxic kind). And it is generally higher in brown rice. The release of this
information woke up the U.S. rice industry from its slumber, which then started
putting pressure on the FDA to clear the issue.
So the FDA issued a statement
saying that yes, there was arsenic in rice, but no, it didn't pose any
"short-term" health risks. This is the absolute truth. There are
chances of long-term health risks from chronic exposure to arsenic.
But this aspect was completely
overlooked by the FDA, which stated that "agency scientists determined
that the amount of detectable arsenic is too low in the rice and rice product
samples to cause any immediate or short-term adverse health effects."
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Well, that is not enough. New
evidence has emerged that suggests that the entire global supply of rice may
have already been contaminated by unapproved, genetically-modified (GM) rice
varieties manufactured by the American multinational corporation Bayer
CropScience.
A recent entry in the GM
Contamination Register explains that, between the years of 2006 and 2007, three
different varieties of illegal GM rice, none of which has ever been approved
for cultivation or consumption anywhere in the world, was identified in more
than 30 countries worldwide.
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And surprise, surprise, Michael
Taylor has been appointed as the US food safety head. As healthy food consumer
advocate Jeffrey Smith wrote at the Huffington Post, "The person
who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in
history has just been made the US food safety czar."
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