Be aware when you feed rice to infant children because of risk from naturally occurring arsenic poisoning

Be aware when you feed rice to infant children because of risk from naturally occurring arsenic poisoning

Arsenic can be absorbed naturally by plants from the soil and the potentially deadly toxin is also found in fossil fuel emissions, which can contaminate crops. Moreover agro water pump can contaminate corns with contaminated arsenic water which can be absorbed by the corns.

While there is not enough to kill someone in the same way as the poison itself, it has been linked to cancer, heart and lung disease, diabetes, poor brain function in children and a reduce immune system after extended exposure through diet. Long term exposure by arsenic poisoning can kill individuals also.

Rice is particularly prone to the problem, partly because of the way it is often grown in flooded paddy fields, which increases the rate of absorption from the ground. Not all rice is affected — only crops grown in areas with high arsenic concentrations in the soil.