Re: Fw: Arsenic in rice milk

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-Hello

After reading your message I sent an e-mail to the research unit.Here

is their answer;

Dear N Penny

The risks associated with chronic arsenic exposure are over a

lifetime, and regulatory limits for arsenic in drink are set

stringently. It is wise to avoid drinks over this limit, which is the

reason why the limits are set. This was what our research was

highlighting.

I am not a nutritionist, and any change in your sons diet should be

discussed with your doctors - but you are probably already aware of this.

Provamel was in our analysis - but the problem is generic to other brands.

Purchasing a rice milk maker (these are also soy milk makers and can

be purchased over the web - I got one from ebay) and using brown

(white rice milk is too gelatinous) Indian basmati rice gives a rice

much lower in arsenic, and give arsenic levels below the standards.

Homemade rice milk has lower fat and protein, and is not nutrient

supplemented. Though the machine costs £60 upwards, the cost per litre

is around 10p - so is cost effective in the long run.

There are rice milk alternatives (soy and oat milk) - but as I

stressed above, any change in your sons diet would need your doctors

advice.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Andy

HOME PAGE:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci/staff/details.php?id=a.meharg & filt=

ARSENIC: unravelling its metabolism & speciation in plants

20th New Phytologist Symposium at Aberdeen

http://www.newphytologist.org/arsenic/default.htm

VENOMOUS EARTH: how arsenic caused the world's worst mass poisoning

available for download at:

http://www.macmillanscience.com/1403944997.asp

It's worrying.My son has been on rice milk substitute for many years.I

am stopping it now and I will go to the skimmed goat milk.

Thanks for the information.

nevin