Dr. Lee의 놀라운 보고에 겁이난다.
본인은 쌀, 김치 없이 2-3주일 정도는 문제없이 견디지만,
밥과 김치없는 life는 상상하기 어렵고 참 힘들것같이 생각된다.

더 Internet을 뒤져봤더니 이런 기사가 나오는데, 이 기사 자체가 "Made in Korea" !!
거기에다가 미국쌀이 한국에서 인기여서 수입 쌀이 모조리 팔린다 한다. 그러니 당연히 한국농부들이...

또, 이 Article의 비소 함량을 영국의 애버딘대학 연구진이 했다하는데,
왜 영국놈들이 해필 쌀의 비소를 연구하나 ?? 이게 가짜 인용, 조작이 아닌가?
그렇다면 한국에서 나온 결과 같은데, 믿을수있을가?
"한겨레 website"이 혹시 반미 좌파 website이 아닐까?

그렇다니, 흠.... 이게 무슨 음모가 아닐가?
광우병 소동과 똑깥은 동기와 처지가 아닌가.
이제 머지 안어 한국에서 미국쌀 먹으면 죽는다고, 좌파들이 이끄는 촛불 시위가 생길것 같다.

Internet에 나왔다해서, 신문에 쓰였다 해서, 어느 대학교수가 한마디 했다해서,
어느 연구소 소장 한마디 했다해서, 어느 돌팔이 양의사 한의사가 한마디 했다해서....
다 믿으면 않된다. Internet의 창궐과 더불어 惡意의 엉터리 정보가 쉽게 퍼진다.

I wish there are more in depth scientific studies on this subject.
Let's keep an eye on it.

왜 영국의 애버딘대학 연구진이 정말 이걸했는지 아직도 의심적다. 한국 좌파 공갈이기 쉽다.
만일 영국에서 했다해도, 같은 California라도 논 밭이 다르고, 물의 Source가 다른데 어떻게 일률적으로 말할수있나?
이런 모든것들을 보면, 이게 정말인지는 아주 의심스럽다.

하여간, 우리는 California 쌀을 먹어왔으니 좀 안심이다.
한국쌀도 마찬가지 중금속이 있다하니, 그것도 안되겠다.
미국 남부 (Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas 등지)에서 나온 쌀을 먹지 안도록 합시다.

I guess I have to re-think about these 'RICES' & their products. WM's thoughts (& British Reports) about the 'RICES' should be right! A lot of 'Pesticides' are added to "Agicultural products" ('cotton','Soy' & 'corn' etc) & the land have been a (known) problem!

Washington, D.C.—Two new sets of research, one from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and another from Consumer Reports, indicate levels of arsenic, a known carcinogen, in some rice and rice products grown in the United States that exceed five parts per billion (ppb). The five ppb safe exposure standard for arsenic in food has been proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, and is the level required for drinking water in New Jersey, the strictest in the nation.

FDA described its findings as preliminary, coming before the release of its full set of data. The Consumer Reports report was final, and unlike FDA, revealed the names of specific brands of rice-based foods on which tests were conducted. Organic brands were among those found to exceed the five ppb standard in some cases. Organic rice baby cereal, rice breakfast cereals, brown rice and white rice were among the categories of products examined by both reports.

Consumer Reports highlighted the fact that infant rice cereals were sometimes found to have levels of inorganic arsenic at least five times greater than those found in alternatives like oatmeal. Organic and inorganic are the two types of arsenic, with inorganic being more associated with a high level of long-term health risk. Based on its findings, Consumer Reports recommend that consumers in the United States limit consumption of rice products, while FDA made no such recommendation, citing the need for further research. Said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., “Our advice right now is that consumers should continue to eat a balanced diet that includes a wide variety of grains—not only for good nutrition but also to minimize any potential consequences from consuming any one particular food.”

Other specific findings by Consumer Reports include that white rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas, which constitutes 76% of domestic rice production, generally had higher levels of total arsenic and inorganic arsenic than samples from other places. Additionally, brown rice was typically found to have higher arsenic levels than white rice, likely due to the lower levels of processing inherent to brown rice. Through a study of federal health data, Consumer Reports found that those who ate rice had arsenic levels that were 44% higher on average than those who did not.

These and other findings have led Consumer Reports to call on FDA to set federal limits for arsenic in rice products as well as fruit juices, which they reported on in January 2012. In the wake of both reports, on September 21, three members of congress introduced the “R.I.C.E Act” (Reducing food-based Inorganic and organic Compounds Exposure Act), which would require FDA to set a federal limit for arsenic in rice.

Published in WholeFoods Magazine, November 2012 (online 9/24/12)

I got urgent letter from Dr. Jae Chan Chang.
Our professor Chang has good idea about the rice and the arsenic level.
Following is his opinion and he also offered two major references regarding this problem.
I didn't realize but there has been such a huge amount of researches in this problem.

.... When I visited your SNU-CM-AA Web Page, 
I was little amused about your posting of Arsenic in Rice and your concern.
I suspect it is one of many floating sensational stories taking advantage of the internet age.
Arsenic is known to be present in minute amounts in rice, shell fishes, fin fishes, and others
as well as sea-weeds in all over the world. Here are some scientific information from U of Aberdeen,
and almost all of published information in the literature on Arsenic contamination in rice,
which clinical implication is very questionable.
Rest be assured the consumption of rice should be safe both in the States and in Korea
as much as in other parts of the world.....

http://books.google.com/books?id=XOu14tAKMyMC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Arsenic%20contamination%20in%20Rice

Please click the above URL to get there.
These are just too much for me to summarize in our website.
One thing, there sure is the arsenic problem associated with rice consumption.
It seems that "Rice and Arsenic" research has been done world wide for a long time.
We were the only ones who were in the dark.

I appreciate Dr. Chang's comment.
His references are indeed extensive and comprehensive.

I understand that our congress is forcing our FDA to come up with some kind of enforcible standards.
The experts at FDA obviously have to digest all the research data for US consumers.
Obviously we are not too concerned about old generation but more concerned about
our young generations, children and grandchildren.

As Dr. Chang stated, arsenic is universally present in our soil, food, etc.
I had an elderly woman who had been taking calcium and magnesium, combination pills for years.
She heard somewhere magnesium is good as well so she decided to take the combination pill when
her family doctor told her to take calcium pills.
On a routine urinalysis she was found to have a significant amount of arsenic in her urine.
Her blood subsequently showed arsenic as well.

After this case, I had found one more patient with the same story.
What I concluded was that when they manufacture the combination pill, perhaps magnesium part,
arsenic must have been co-existent with the original material.

After this observation, I've been making effort to tell any ladies who want to take the combination pill
no to do so.
Somehow this was not observed with calcium pill alone.
I thought I would throw in this anectdotal case in this discussion.