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Inorganic arsenic averaged 100 parts per billion in brown rice infant cereal and 74 parts per billion in white rice infant cereal in our tests, baby food companies have taken brown rice cereal off the market because of its high arsenic levels. – Jane Houlihan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's also not as much evidence that cadmium is neurotoxic to babies, or at least the body of evidence isn't there at the same levels as lead and arsenic, lead and arsenic damage isn't reversible -- these are permanent impacts on IQ, learning ability and behavior, so it's a big deal. – Jane Houlihan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Rice cakes, rice puffs, crisped rice cereals and brown rice with no cooking water removed are heavily contaminated with inorganic arsenic, which is the more toxic form of arsenic. – Jane Houlihan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The safety of infants and children is Beech-Nut's top priority. We are issuing this voluntary recall, because we learned through routine sampling by the State of Alaska that a limited quantity of Beech-Nut Single Grain Rice Cereal products had levels of naturally-occurring inorganic arsenic above the FDA guidance level, even though the rice flour used to produce these products tested below the FDA guidance level for inorganic arsenic. – Jason Jacobs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Beech-Nut is concerned about the ability to consistently obtain rice flour well-below the FDA guidance level and Beech-Nut specifications for naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. – The FDA	Found on CNN 2 years ago
To our knowledge, this is the first recall of infant rice cereal due to high arsenic levels. – Jane Houlihan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The FDA should lower the allowable limit, in the meantime, parents have options -- other types of infant cereal have one-sixth as much arsenic as infant rice cereal, on average, and are safer choices. – Jane Houlihan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The FDA announcement of the recall is great news, it's so important for babies that this cereal not make it to market. We fully support FDA's enforcement action to help reduce arsenic exposures for these little ones who are so vulnerable. – Jane Houlihan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The stronger association in subjects with elevated blood pressure suggests that individuals with pre-clinical heart disease might be more prone to the toxic effects of arsenic on the heart. – Gernot Pichler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The higher the arsenic content in drinking water, the greater the damage to the heart. – Gernot Pichler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is important for the general public to be aware that arsenic can be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, private wells are currently not regulated and people using private wells, including children and young adults, are not protected. – Gernot Pichler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Arsenic is going to be an issue with groundwater in certain areas. – Tasha Stoiber	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The water in the Cape Fear River next to Duke's Sutton plant had twice as much arsenic in it as the toxic gray coal ash slurry spilling straight out of the pipe into the Dan River in 2014. – Donna Lisenby	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Next step is to warn librarians and readers of old books to wear protective gloves, and to advise libraries to store any green painted old books in a dry, dark environment out of harm’s way of people inhaling the air above the books, the reason for the latter recommendation is that arsenic has a tendency to transform to the airborne arsine (AsH3) given the right conditions of humidity and light. Besides the toxicity, arsenic is also carcinogenic. – Kaare Lund Rasmussen	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking, which happens when withdrawal rates exceed recharge rate, there is no law here to check excessive groundwater withdrawal. – Ashok Ghosh	Found on CNN 7 years ago
When I joined the cancer hospital, I started checking blood, hair and nail samples of cancer patients and found they have very clear-cut symptoms of arsenic poisoning, i saw 6 and 7-year-old children coming with cancer. These children don't chew tobacco or smoke. It was very disturbing, and I could not sleep. Slowly, I adjusted. – Ashok Ghosh	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Lady Astor: Sir, if you were my husband I would put arsenic in your tea! Churchill: If I were your husband I would drink it! – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 7 years ago
I'm willing to entertain a number of ifs before that tips the scales for me, but this [ arsenic theory ] is reckless. – Janine Barchas	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The next leap in logic : Do they evidence cataracts ? I'm not a medical expert, but my medical experts who I consulted don't necessarily draw that conclusion, and are cataracts caused by arsenic, well, that's another quantum leap in itself. – Janine Barchas	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We do not use arsenic or manganese in our operation. – Greg Foulis	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Those show clearly where the problem is the biggest and can be used as a guide for people to understand the potential risk for having arsenic in their wells, but the recommendation is that everybody tests. – Joseph Ayotte	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In studies coming from Chile, Taiwan and Argentina where people were drinking water with high levels of arsenic, they had increased levels of bladder cancer mortality. – Debra Silverman	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We were surprised by the percentage of infants who ate rice snacks and that one of these products contained levels above the current E.U. standard of 100 parts per billion, this was a strawberry flavored puffed rice snack, which contained 40 percent inorganic arsenic, with the first two ingredients listed as brown and white rice flour. – Margaret Karagas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Arsenic is a known carcinogen that can influence risk of cardiovascular, immune and other diseases, there’s a growing body of evidence that even relatively low levels of exposure may have adverse health impacts on young children including on growth, immunity and neurodevelopment. – Margaret Karagas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Inorganic arsenic averaged 100 parts per billion in brown rice infant cereal and 74 parts per billion in white rice infant cereal in our tests, baby food companies have taken brown rice cereal off the market because of its high arsenic levels.

– Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's also not as much evidence that cadmium is neurotoxic to babies, or at least the body of evidence isn't there at the same levels as lead and arsenic, lead and arsenic damage isn't reversible -- these are permanent impacts on IQ, learning ability and behavior, so it's a big deal.

– Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rice cakes, rice puffs, crisped rice cereals and brown rice with no cooking water removed are heavily contaminated with inorganic arsenic, which is the more toxic form of arsenic.

– Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The safety of infants and children is Beech-Nut's top priority. We are issuing this voluntary recall, because we learned through routine sampling by the State of Alaska that a limited quantity of Beech-Nut Single Grain Rice Cereal products had levels of naturally-occurring inorganic arsenic above the FDA guidance level, even though the rice flour used to produce these products tested below the FDA guidance level for inorganic arsenic.

– Jason Jacobs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Beech-Nut is concerned about the ability to consistently obtain rice flour well-below the FDA guidance level and Beech-Nut specifications for naturally occurring inorganic arsenic.

– The FDA

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To our knowledge, this is the first recall of infant rice cereal due to high arsenic levels.

– Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The FDA should lower the allowable limit, in the meantime, parents have options -- other types of infant cereal have one-sixth as much arsenic as infant rice cereal, on average, and are safer choices.

– Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The FDA announcement of the recall is great news, it's so important for babies that this cereal not make it to market. We fully support FDA's enforcement action to help reduce arsenic exposures for these little ones who are so vulnerable.

– Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The stronger association in subjects with elevated blood pressure suggests that individuals with pre-clinical heart disease might be more prone to the toxic effects of arsenic on the heart.

– Gernot Pichler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The higher the arsenic content in drinking water, the greater the damage to the heart.

– Gernot Pichler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is important for the general public to be aware that arsenic can be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, private wells are currently not regulated and people using private wells, including children and young adults, are not protected.

– Gernot Pichler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Arsenic is going to be an issue with groundwater in certain areas.

– Tasha Stoiber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The water in the Cape Fear River next to Duke's Sutton plant had twice as much arsenic in it as the toxic gray coal ash slurry spilling straight out of the pipe into the Dan River in 2014.

– Donna Lisenby

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Next step is to warn librarians and readers of old books to wear protective gloves, and to advise libraries to store any green painted old books in a dry, dark environment out of harm’s way of people inhaling the air above the books, the reason for the latter recommendation is that arsenic has a tendency to transform to the airborne arsine (AsH3) given the right conditions of humidity and light. Besides the toxicity, arsenic is also carcinogenic.

– Kaare Lund Rasmussen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking, which happens when withdrawal rates exceed recharge rate, there is no law here to check excessive groundwater withdrawal.

– Ashok Ghosh

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When I joined the cancer hospital, I started checking blood, hair and nail samples of cancer patients and found they have very clear-cut symptoms of arsenic poisoning, i saw 6 and 7-year-old children coming with cancer. These children don't chew tobacco or smoke. It was very disturbing, and I could not sleep. Slowly, I adjusted.

– Ashok Ghosh

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Lady Astor: Sir, if you were my husband I would put arsenic in your tea! Churchill: If I were your husband I would drink it!

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I'm willing to entertain a number of ifs before that tips the scales for me, but this [ arsenic theory ] is reckless.

– Janine Barchas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The next leap in logic : Do they evidence cataracts ? I'm not a medical expert, but my medical experts who I consulted don't necessarily draw that conclusion, and are cataracts caused by arsenic, well, that's another quantum leap in itself.

– Janine Barchas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We do not use arsenic or manganese in our operation.

– Greg Foulis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Those show clearly where the problem is the biggest and can be used as a guide for people to understand the potential risk for having arsenic in their wells, but the recommendation is that everybody tests.

– Joseph Ayotte

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In studies coming from Chile, Taiwan and Argentina where people were drinking water with high levels of arsenic, they had increased levels of bladder cancer mortality.

– Debra Silverman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We were surprised by the percentage of infants who ate rice snacks and that one of these products contained levels above the current E.U. standard of 100 parts per billion, this was a strawberry flavored puffed rice snack, which contained 40 percent inorganic arsenic, with the first two ingredients listed as brown and white rice flour.

– Margaret Karagas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Arsenic is a known carcinogen that can influence risk of cardiovascular, immune and other diseases, there’s a growing body of evidence that even relatively low levels of exposure may have adverse health impacts on young children including on growth, immunity and neurodevelopment.

– Margaret Karagas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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