Food safety: What’s lurking in rice? (Marketplace)

Marketplace commissioned lab tests on popular brands of rice cereals and snacks to test for levels of arsenic, a chemical that can be especially harmful for babies and children. We investigate which brands and varieties of rice are more likely to contain arsenic.

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