Recently, some media reported that about 10% of commercially available rice had excessive chromium levels, which would harm human bones and kidneys, cause itai-itai disease, and prevent the kidneys from functioning normally. Once this news was reported, it immediately attracted widespread social attention. The fact that rice, one of the staple foods, also has safety hazards has added another layer of panic among consumers regarding China's food safety.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11287/
The "2010-2015 Xinjiang Agricultural Products Market Investment Analysis and Prospect Forecast Report" released by China Investment Consulting shows that among the 8 major public nuisance incidents of the last century once announced by the International Health Organization, the incident of cadmium-contaminated rice in Japan causing itai-itai disease was one of them. As early as 2002, relevant departments conducted safety spot checks on rice in China's market, and the results showed that excessive heavy metals in rice did indeed exist, among which the excessive lead rate was 28.4%, and the excessive cadmium rate was 10.3%.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11287/
Zhou Siran, a food industry researcher at China Investment Consulting, pointed out that the safety of the rice market has always been the focus of public attention, so why is rice contaminated by cadmium? This is mainly due to the soil problem in rice cultivation. With the acceleration of China's industrialization process, environmental pollution problems have gradually emerged. Some harmful heavy metal compounds such as cadmium, arsenic, and mercury produced in industrial production processes are released into nature, polluting part of China's land and water flows, and rice planted in these soils continuously absorbs these heavy metal elements. If this continues, it will inevitably cause excessive heavy metals in some rice.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11287/
Since cadmium-excessive rice exists, consumers should be more vigilant when choosing rice, but when faced with the dazzling array of rice brands on the market, consumers are at a loss as to what to do. In fact, with the naked eye alone, we cannot distinguish which are problematic rice. Therefore, the only way to cope is to change a single dietary structure and choose rice varieties from different origins and different brands to reduce the risk to a minimum.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11287/
Zhang Yanlin, research director of China Investment Consulting, pointed out that excessive heavy metals have become one of the food safety issues that seriously threaten our health. How to effectively control and manage the upstream has become the key to ensuring future food safety. The rise of green food and organic food may point out the direction for the future development of the food industry. For China's agricultural product production, building a full industrial chain from field to table is crucial.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11287/