Arsenic risk areas worldwide Data source: “Arsenic contamination in south-east asia region: Technologies for arsenic mitigation” by M. Feroze Ahmed of the World Bank Group’s “Water Week 2004” forum. Translated from: File:Weltkarte arsenrisikogebiete.gif
This may be news to many, it turns out that high arsenic levels have been found in American-grown rice. This stems from the fact that many groundwater reservoirs in the US have unsafe, high levels of arsenic (and probably also the fact that rice is a highly irrigation-intensive crop).
Lundberg, one of the largest American rice growers if not the largest (at least for organic rices) is aware of it.
fda.gov: “Arsenic in Rice: Summary Analytical Results from Rice/Rice Product Sampling – September 2012”
wikipedia.org: “Arsenic contamination of groundwater; Contamination specific nations and regions: United States”
Rice grown in the USA has up to five times higher levels of arsenic than those found in rice grown in Europe, India and Bangladesh, says a report in the August 2005 edition of Environmental Science and Technology.
source: speciation.net: “Surprisingly high concentrations of toxic arsenic species found in U.S. rice“
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