date:Sep 21, 2012
es from consuming any one particular food.
Earlier this year two US congress representatives called on the FDA to set allowable limits for arsenic .
Federal standards needed
The FDA statement comes on the back of a report from consumer watchdog, Consumer Reports, which said federal standards were needed for arsenic in food.
Ana Navas-Acien, a physician-epidemiologist with expertise in arsenic research at Johns Hopkins Universitys Bloomberg School of Public Health, was one of the people lead