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A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk of arsenic. What about seaweed from the coast of Maine? “At one point during the reign of...
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View ArticleHijiki - Is There Arsenic in Rice? How Much Rice Is Too Much?
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