Arsenic in rice and diets of children

Levels of arsenic in Australian and imported rice (n\ua0=\ua036) were evaluated using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for total arsenic and a hyphenated high-performance liquid chromatography ICP-MS system for arsenic species. The study also assessed the daily intake of total As from diets of healthy children (n\ua0=\ua015), collected over three consecutive days. A wide variation of total As levels (range