The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for overseeing the safety of about 80 percent of the nation's food supply and for promoting good nutrition. Chapter 1 reviews FDA's food safety- and nutrition-related activities and resources. Arsenic, an element in the earth's crust, can be harmful to human health and may be present in water and certain foods, such as rice. Chapter 2 examines what the National Research Council (NRC) and recent key scientific reviews have reported about the effects of ingestion of arsenic on human health, the extent to which FDA and USDA have managed the...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for overseeing the safety of about 80 percent of the nation's food supply and for promoting good...
