arsenic

If you don't like this answer, eat Asian-grown rice (~75% less arsenic), rinse your rice (~25% less arsenic), or cook it in substantially more water (~50% less arsenic).

Far as I can tell the fish doesn't work if the water is contaminated with arsenic and/or manganese, so more research is needed.

Wouldn't any technique that washes/leaches arsenic from rice also remove similar amounts of nutrients like essential vitamins and minerals?

It's not like food is laced with arsenic, you can taste and smell if something went bad.

It re-uses the arsenic water unless you toss it, which is a big waste of water.

For an analogy: boiling water will sterilize it, but not do anything about turbid mud or arsenic or other non-living contaminates.

In 2012 the FDA was busy doing the science and projecting their risk assessment for arsenic in rice should be published in 2014.

Maybe, gasp, even prevent the sale of rice with excessively high arsenic concentrations?

Many GF products substitute rice for wheat, which is lower-fiber, lower-protein, and contains potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, e.g.

Another confounding factor is that many of the areas with high fluoride levels also had high aluminum, mercury, and arsenic levels as well.

What do you think about the prohibition of adding arsenic to the food?

I wonder if we'd be here if our ancestors cooked rice in a way that did not reduce the arsenic content.

Can't you protect yourself and go cleanup an arsenic spill "easily" compared to how you would cleanup a radioactive spent fuel rod container which tore open?

We have no working long term solution for storing arsenic, but people mostly seem fine with "just dispose of it in a way where it doesn't leech into the groundwater" and not the crazy restrictions everyone wants to put on nuclear waste storage.

Arsenic amount depends on where the rice is grown (largely based on historical pesticide use).