icepick wrote:
I don't think Rice grown there has a problem. Arsenic is native in the soil in certain places. It might tend to leach into starches. A lot of other things do. Gustavus is a very small Alaskan town, in the middle of a national park. As pure as you can get ........... except you have to have a filter system to get the Arsenic out of the well water. Does that help?

I read a few years ago about a whole village thousands of years ago that died is South America due to arsenic in their drinking water.  Its a problem, but can we label all rice dangerous?  C2b2618267b8ab6ef60ab51314395d58f68ea2bc_s  We live on a fair bit of rice..... not every day but a couple of times a week.... its never affected us.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~