EXPERTS at a Scottish university are developing a new strain of rice that is less likely to become contaminated by arsenic.
The poison, which some say was used by the British to kill Napoleon, occurs naturally in the developing world and can accumulate in rice crops and then in the body to produce symptoms similar to cholera, sometimes followed by death.
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