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IRELAND’S FOOD SAFETY authority is warning parents against giving rice milk to young children.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland advises that infants and young children up to four-and-a-half years old should not consume rice milk as a substitute for cows’ milk, breast milk or infant formula.
Previously, the FSAI has warned about findings that indicated low levels of inorganic arsenic can be found in rice milk.
In a statement today, it said it was aware of a rice-based infant and follow-on formula available to buy online via a co.uk website.
“Such infant formulas are not legally permitted to be sold on the European market, as they do not meet the legal compositional and nutritional requirements for infants,” it said.
“The FSAI is in contact with authorities in the UK and other Member States to discontinue the sale of this product in Europe from this website.”
The authority has contacted hospitals and public health professionals to inform them about the online sales.
FSAI Chief Executive Dr Pamela Byrne explained that exposure to inorganic, toxic arsenic must be kept as low as possible.
“Rice-based infant formula and follow-on formula are not legally permitted to be sold on the European market as they do not meet infants’ nutritional requirements,” Dr Byrne said.
“Also, there is a concern around the inorganic arsenic content of rice-based products intended for young children. The FSAI is aware from published studies that low levels of inorganic arsenic have been detected in rice milk in the past and the recommendation is that infants and young children up to 4.5 years are not exposed to these products,” she said.
“Arsenic is present in the environment and, therefore, can be present in a range of foods, including rice, at low levels. The toxicity of arsenic depends on the form in which it is present, this being either organic or inorganic.
The inorganic form is the more toxic form and the FSAI states that exposure to this should be kept as low as reasonably practicable.
“As a precaution, to reduce exposure to inorganic arsenic, parents and guardians should not give these foods to infants and young children up to 4.5 years.”
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“Londonderry” are you serious Cliodhna ??
Glenowen is most definitely Derry ! Nice quiet estate too – very unusual to hear trouble there
DERRY NOT LONDONDERRY
Londonderry is the only word in the English language with six silent letters
That’s funny. If you’re from Derry then perhaps you may argue this. If you are from anywhere else in the country, republic or north, you should lighten up a little. Who really cares. It’s both really, is it not.
I wonder when liberals are going to wake up and start punishing violent criminals properly.
I am sick of these scúmbags getting off so lightly!
Punishment doesn’t lead to crime reduction and that’s the problem. Proper reform and yes a sentence should allow for proper rehabilitation or long enough that we can be certain they won’t reoffend.
Punishment as in 50 lashes will not lead to crime reduction ? How do we know ?
Because in America they go one better and execute prisoners and srill the violent crime rate increases. Rehabilitation for society does more than stiffer sentences. Im all for long brutal sentences but it does not affect the crime rate
But you must admit Hard Yaka that in the case of capital punishment the chances of re-offending are fairly remote
I would have to agree but as a deterrent it does nothing. If people know they will do 15 years for car jacking it wont make any difference. The fools dont think that far ahead. Look at the two muppets in the taxi on Sunday.
I’m actually disgusted that she called it Londonderry, I mean not even Derry/Londonderry like what the neutrals call it!!
You should take the fada out of your name pretending to be irish and then you call Derry Londonderry…
If this was done in the name of a united Ireland some people would regard these hijackers as heroes and soldiers.
Legally, the city and county are called “Londonderry”, while the local government district is called “Derry” – Wikipedia.
It’s Derry to the majority of people of that city and on this island. I don’t even think refusing to call it ‘Londonderry’ has anything to do with unionist/nationalist conflict, but with the fact that the city of Derry has its own unique identity, without needing the prefix london added to it in the most offensive manner.
@ Pickart,
For an Analologist like yourself I would have thought Wikipedia would not be your preferred reference source of choice
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