Arsenic and . . . Apple Juice?

From Food Safety News July 15, 2013

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed a limit for
arsenic in apple juice, two years after testing by Dr. Oz and Consumer Reports spurred widespread consumer concern about the presence of the compound in juice products.

The Environmental Protection Agency already has an arsenic limit for tap water, but the FDA’s new proposal is the first such federal standard for a food product. The proposed limit, or “action level,” for inorganic arsenic —  the harmful form of the chemical that is a known human carcinogen – matches the EPA’s current threshold for inorganic arsenic at 10 parts per billion.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/07/fda-proposes-limit-for-arsenic-in-apple-juice/#.Ue3Pnr7D-AI