RSS Feed
April 11th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda U.S. Rice Imports Contain Harmful Levels of Lead
April 11th, 2013
Via: BBC:
Analysis of commercially available rice imported into the US has revealed it contains levels of lead far higher than regulations suggest are safe.
Some samples exceeded the “provisional total tolerable intake” (PTTI) set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a factor of 120.
The report at the American Chemical Society Meeting adds to the already well-known issue of arsenic in rice.
The FDA told the BBC it would review the research.
Lead is known to be harmful to many organs and the central nervous system.
It is a particular risk for young children, who suffer significant developmental problems if exposed to elevated lead levels.
Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible than other staple crops to environmental pollutants in irrigation water.
…
Rice from China and Taiwan had the highest lead levels, but Dr Tongesayi stressed that all of the samples significantly exceeded the PTTIs.
Dr Tongesayi has also worked on quantifying arsenic contamination – and is in effect working his way through the heavy metals one by one to determine their prevalence.
The problem, he said, is the range of agricultural practices around the world.
“If you look through the scientific literature, especially on India and China, they irrigate their crops with raw sewage effluent and untreated industrial effluent,” he explained.
“Research has been done in those countries, and concerns have been raised because of those practices, but it’s still ongoing.”
Dr Tongesayi also said that the increasing practice of sending electronic waste to developing countries – and the pollution it leads to – exacerbates the problem.
One Response to “U.S. Rice Imports Contain Harmful Levels of Lead”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Source Article from http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=34531
Views: 0
Posted in 
April 11th, 2013 at 4:16 am
sheesh. Wonder if that little piece of information: “we use shit and industrial waste to irrigate our crops” will ever make it to the label on the package or on the restaurant menu? Not likely.
And the FDA will study it? Sure, and they will get around to THAT STUDY when pigs develop wings and begin to fly. And at the rate that the morons who treat the food they export like it is shit to be fed to pigs (who deserve so much credit for how good they are to eat when fed well), we won’t have long to wait for pigs to develop all kinds of wings, in places you can only imagine.