Total Recommended Arsenic Consumption by Food and Beverage (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Total Recommended Arsenic Consumption by Food and Beverage

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This chart estimates how close minimal, average and heavy consumers of certain foods would come to exceeding maximum recommended arsenic intake levels across their diets. As highlighted, a woman who eats an average amount of rice would get 49 percent of the maximum recommended arsenic "dose" from that one source.

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Posted with permission from the <i>Journal of Environmental Health</i>, a publication of the National Environmental Health Association, www.neha.org.

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