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New research is showing that crops, particularly rice, take up arsenic from groundwater and concentrate the toxin in their seeds, which happens to be the part we eat.  Exposure to arsenic from food is a potential health risk to many populations that depend on rice. 

Can we take the arsenic out of the plant?  Is it possible to prevent arsenic from entering the grain?  Should we accept rice as a food with naturally high arsenic levels, or can we develop healthier rice to eat?

Come learn from the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program about how they’re addressing this health and food safety issue.      

Where:
Upper Valley Food Co-op
193 North Main Street
White River Junction, VT
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About the Speaker:

Todd Warczak is a molecular and cellular biologist at Dartmouth College focusing on how plants accumulate, identify, and detoxify arsenic.  His work in the Guerinot lab aims to help plants like rice prevent arsenic from reaching their seeds, which happens to be our largest source of dietary arsenic.  Todd arrived in the Upper Valley in 2012 after receiving his B.S. in Biology from the University of Utah.  He expects to receive his PhD from Dartmouth in 2018, when peer-reviewed research is cool and all the policy makers will be doing it.