HEALTH MANAGEMEN. Storm in a lunch box: arsenic tracks in Apple juice

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Fears about arsenic in Apple Juice are exaggerated, and experts say.
iStockphoto.com fears about arsenic in Apple Juice are exaggerated, and experts say.
Be many parents might be worried about what in their children's sippy cups is if they have a recent report by TV talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz about high levels of arsenic in popular brands of Apple juice.
But the food and drug administration and medical experts access oz report say parents it is inaccurate and unnecessary panic.
In fact, Dr. Richard Besser, former Acting Director of the Centers for disease control and prevention, frontal solution potential oz this morning on good morning America. Better, a med school classmate of Oz, as the report "very irresponsible" and compared it to shouting fire in a crowded theater. (Listen their testy Exchange here.)
 
Oz found arsenic levels up to 36 parts per billion (ppb) in some Gerber brand Apple juice and some lower levels in other brands.
But the problem is that the entire arsenic in Apple Juice Products oz testing will only be considered. The samples do not distinguish between organic arsenic, which is found in nature, and goes through the body quickly, and inorganic arsenic, toxic, are periods in large doses and about long.
"How can you people say that this is harmful, without having to do this [own] tests?" Not a good scientist always this kind of work would do, "fumed better on oz."
In the meantime, the FDA led his own tests, and significantly lower total arsenic in juice. "Moreover, the vast majority of Apple Juice samples by the FDA over the past 20 years show that Apple Juice usually ppb overall contains less than 10 arsenic," the FDA says in a letter to the show. (the amount of environmental says protection agency is OK in tap water is 10 ppbs.)
Oz GMA said that he stands by the test results and denied that he scared parents was eingejagt. "I not Apple Juice now would take from my children container," said Oz, the father of four. But it "is misleading to claim that all organic arsenic is safe," he said, and he hopes his report "Starting a conversation."
So there is need to worry about arsenic in Apple juice?
Dr. oz has while not only their tests to high levels of arsenic in Apple Juice is, retains the FDA that it the monitor Apple Juice levels and that the drink safe to consume.
The United States inorganic arsenic in pesticides in the late 1980s banned, although some remains in the ground, say scientists. But since most now Apple juice concentrate from China, where the pesticide standards chosen are less strict, people are concerned about arsenic and other chemicals.
So why is no "safe" value of arsenic in Apple juice, consumer protection before the offer long term exposure there?
The FDA says that harmful inorganic arsenic form regulated in drinking water, organic arsenic form mainly in food, including Apple Juice is found.
This is not to say that the FDA needs easily arsenic. He ordered before recently a chicken medicine, the containing arsenic out of the market.
Consumer reports has warned consumers about arsenic and other heavy metals in protein drinks found.

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