Global variation in cadmium in rice

The origin of rice products is an important factor in determining the content of cadmium in rice, and cadmium in rice can be greatly reduced by combining procurement and post-harvest processing. The difference in the cadmium content of different types of rice products is also obvious.

Choosing rice products with lower cadmium content in food purchase is useful for reducing the body's cadmium intake amount. <br> <br>Groups which are vulnerable to exposure risk by cadmium also deserve attention, such as infants and children. It should be noted that the interest of food safety agencies and experts all over the world in the study of cadmium exposure risk has been increasing. Compared with arsenic, at the same time, the scope of the investigation on the content of cadmium in rice is narrow, and the amount of data is small, and the samples are not diverse enough.