FDA Makes Available Results from Testing of Infant Rice Cereal for Inorganic Arsenic (tested in 2018)

1 Descriptive statistics

	n	min	P25th	mean	median	P75th	max
tAs	149	36.7	98.6	115.23	119.0	131.0	348
iAs	149	22.4	70.0	84.73	89.7	100.0	142
DMA	149	6.9	21.0	30.91	28.2	32.9	211

tAs = total arsenic; iAs = inorganic arsenic; DMA = dimethylarsinic acid.

2 Inorganic arsenic concentrations

3 Results

The total number of samples with iAs ≤100 is 113 (76%).

The total number of samples with iAs <100 is 109 (73%).

The total number of samples with iAs equal 100 is 4 (3%).

The total number of samples with iAs >100 is 36 (24%).

4 References

https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-makes-available-results-testing-infant-rice-cereal-inorganic-arsenic

https://www.fda.gov/media/97121/download