After an official study of 60 rice milk products, all of which contained traces of arsenic, the UK Food Standards Agency, while stressing that "There is no immediate risk to children who have been consuming rice drinks and it is unlikely there would have been any long-term harmful effects," has warned parents not to give rice milk to young children.

University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine professor and researcher Alan Solomon, M.D., director of the Human Immunology and Cancer/Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid-Related Disorders Research Program, led a team that discovered a link between foie gras prepared from goose or duck liver and the type of amyloid found in rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis.