Why your rice might be dangerous (and how to fix it)

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An assessment of the impact of traditional rice cooking practice and eating habits on arsenic and iron transfer into the food chain of smallholders of Indo-Gangetic plain of South-Asia: Using AMMI and Monte-Carlo simulation model

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Summary

This study said cooking rice in dirty water makes it full of poison, but the scientists got it wrong and the paper was pulled.

Proposed Mechanism

No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.

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Authors

Moulick D, Ghosh D, Gharde Y, Majumdar A, Upadhyay MK, Chakraborty D, Mahanta S, Das A, Choudhury S, Brestic M, Alahmadi TA, Ansari MJ, Chandra Santra S, Hossain A