Articles written by Monica Eng

Monica Eng, Star Tribune|Oct 11, 2012

Last month rice lovers got some bitter news. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Reports released studies showing "worrisome" levels of cancer-causing arsenic in many popular rices and rice products. Within days some doctors called for limiting rice consumption, especially for children. Consumer Reports suggested capping weekly servings to less than a cup of cooked rice for kids and about 11/2 cups of cooked rice for adults. And the Illinois attorney general's office, which conducted its own tests on infant rice cereal,...