Making baby food safer: Arsenic and cadmium contamination levels in rice

Making baby food safer: Arsenic and cadmium contamination levels in rice

Rice and spinach are staples for babies’ and young children’s diets, but toxic metals and metalloids found in those foods can cause severe health impacts. In particular, heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, mercury, and metalloid arsenic could delay brain development in babies and young children. In new research published in the academic journal Environmental … Read more