Cooking tips to possibly lessen risk of arsenic in rice Rice
cooking tips, like rinsing the rice and cooking in lots more
water than usual, can help lessen possible exposure to arsenic.
(Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and Consumer Reports released studies showing
"worrisome" levels of cancer-causing arsenic in many popular
rices and rice products. Within days some doctors called for
limiting rice consumption, especially in children. Consumer
Reports suggested capping weekly servings to less than a cup of
cooked rice for kids and about 11/2 cups of cooked rice for
adults. And the Illinois Attorney General's office, which
conducted its own tests on infant rice cereal, suggested
watching how much rice cereal parents feed to babies. The FDA,
however, stopped short of advising a cap on rice consumption or
even a limit on arsenic residues in rice. But it did say that
the levels found have prompted the agency to prioritize further
testing of about 1,000 more samples by the end of t