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Healthy Babies Bright Futures (2025 rice report)

follow-up focused on rice and rice-based products, where arsenic is the main story. 175 products tested across 106 brands. 554 measurements.

554measurements
175unique products
106brands
1categories
2025year span
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what this source covers

HBBF's 2025 follow-up zeroed in on rice and rice-based products. arsenic naturally accumulates in rice because of how the crop is grown in flooded fields, and rice is also one of the first solid foods many infants eat. the report tested 175 products across 106 brands.

this slice of the database contributes 554 measurements, of which 194 are arsenic specifically. most of the rows land in the food-other category (rice cakes, infant rice cereal, rice puffs) rather than baby food strictly defined. the highest arsenic readings here are in rice-based snack products marketed at toddlers.

if you came in worried about baby food generally and walked out specifically worried about rice, this report is why.

categories this source contributed to

HBBF 2025 contributed measurements to 1 of the 13 categories in the lead database. each card links to the full sortable table for that category, where you can filter by source = "HBBF 2025" to see only these rows.

food (other) 554 measurements (100.0%) →
rice, cereals, candies, sauces. anything edible that is not baby food or spice.

methodology & license

metals tested: arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead.

units: normalized to ppb (parts per billion by mass), identical to µg/kg. 1,000 ppb = 1 ppm = 1 mg/kg = 0.0001%. recall records (where the original notice did not publish a concentration) are flagged in the table as "recall record" rather than a number.

license: cite HBBF. when you reuse rows from this source, attribute the original source. the unified database itself is published under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

official source: https://hbbf.org/report/arsenic-in-rice

back to the hub

the lead database hub stitches together HBBF 2025 with eight other open-license sources for a unified, searchable view of consumer-product heavy-metal data. nine sources, thirteen categories, 67,497 measurements, all normalized to the same units.

where the data comes from

nine open-license datasets, stitched together. each row in the table above links to the original source.

units & methodology

every concentration is normalized to ppb (parts per billion), which is identical to µg/kg. 1 ppm = 1,000 ppb = 1 mg/kg. 10,000,000 ppb = 1% by mass. methodology and limits of detection vary per source. always click through to the original record before quoting a number.

limitations to keep in mind

1. categorization is keyword-based. some borderline products may sit in the wrong bucket.
2. there is no cross-source dedup. the same product may show up in NYC NPSD and king county and pure earth as three separate rows.
3. about 11% of rows are recall records (CPSC, FDA) that don't carry a ppb value. those show as "recall record" in the data column.
4. some values are extreme, up to 1,000,000,000 ppb (= 100% by mass). these are real measurements of solid-state lead in religious amulets, kohl powder, or jewelry charms. not edible.

download the raw data

download unified_v3.csv (67,497 rows · 12 MB)

license: CC-BY-SA 4.0. use this data for anything. attribute as "detectlead.com Lead Database" with a link back to this page, plus the original source for any row you cite. derivative works must use the same license.

other categories

baby food (1,002)spices (2,085)cookware (2,340)cosmetics (1,542)supplements (840)toys (1,372)food (other) (420)electronics (753)paint (500)jewelry (369)candy (297)religious & ceremonial (122)vapes (41)

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