Category: Issue 459

U.S. Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) have sent letters to eight companies requesting information about arsenic levels in rice products. Waxman and DeGette have asked Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp., Carolina Rice, Della Rice, Earth’s Best, Nestlé Nutrition’s Gerber Rice, Jazzmen Rice, Martin Farms, and Whole Foods Market to respond by November 8, 2012,…