The development and use of an innovative laboratory method for measuring arsenic in drinking water from Western Bangladesh

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1196-1204

  Frisbie, Seth H ^a   Mitchell, Erika J ^a   Yusuf, Ahmad Zaki ^b   Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf ^b   Sanchez, Raul E ^c   Ortega, Richard ^d   Maynard, Donald M ^e   Sarkar, Bibudhendra ^f,g  

^a Better Life Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b Bangladesh Association for Needy Peoples Improvement   (Bangladesh)

^c Green Mountain Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e Johnson Company Inc   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenomolybdate; Bangladesh; Chronic arsenic poisoning; Drinking water; Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy; Silver diethyldithiocarbamate; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; DRINKING WATER;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BANGLADESH; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; BANGLADESH; DITIOCARB; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOLYBDENUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 25844523855     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7974     Document Type: Article

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