[bryceacc]

link to the actual report:

https://hbbf.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Arsenic-in-Rice...

This rang my "fraud" detector in my head:

1. a random .org site that sounds too much like rah rah save the children

2. spammed across many news sites and reddit and now hacker news all in a short time span

but after reading the report it seems pretty good

The take-away I got was buy rice grown in California, Thailand, or India. Soak beforehand if you really want to reduce bad stuff

[johnea]

Thanks for reading the report and providing the tl;dr.

Another thing that caught my eye as I scanned the article was "rice products" which is obviously not just rice, and levels exceeded for "infant rice cereal".

So, it did sort of seem aimed at the market of inducing panic in new moms.

[PaulHoule]

Also rice is a lot worse than other grains and brown rice is worse than other rice. Asian people in particular should diversify their diets. I'd note that Asian-Americans already have high PFAS levels because they use rice cookers.

[BoomerOK]

Do you have a source about PFAs from rice cookers? My understanding is that Teflon in cookware, used at recommended temperatures, doesn't release PFAs. It's the Teflon manufacturing process that releases PFAs.