Arsenic in Food Can Cause Cancer
Cancer Burden from Dietary Exposure to Inorganic Arsenic in the United States: Risk Assessment and Policy Implications.
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Some foods have arsenic, which can lead to more people getting cancer.
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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Some foods have arsenic, which can lead to more people getting cancer.
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.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
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Scientists study how much arsenic in food might harm people, and this helps create smart rules to make food safer by reducing arsenic.
Eating certain foods regularly that contain a chemical called inorganic arsenic might raise your chances of getting bladder, lung, and skin cancer. For example, it could lead to thousands of extra cancer cases each year in the U.S.
Arsenic sometimes gets into our food from nature or pollution, and the rules in the US don't cover all foods well, even though we know it can be bad for our health.