Effectiveness and reliability of arsenic field testing kits: Are the million dollar screening projects effective or not?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5385-5394

  Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^a   Mukherjee, Debapriyo ^b   Sengupta, Mrinal Kumar ^a   Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Chanda, Chitta Ranjan ^a   Roy, Shibtosh ^c   Selim, Md ^c   Quamruzzaman, Quazi ^c   Milton, Abul Hasnat ^d   Shahidullah, S M ^d   Tofizur, Rahman Md ^d   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CENTRAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD   (India)

^c Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

^d NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER POLLUTION;

FIELD KITS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER; WELL WATER; FRESH WATER;

TESTING METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY TEST; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ALGORITHMS; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; FRESH WATER; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 18744410343     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es020591o     Document Type: Article

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