Additional danger of arsenic exposure through inhalation from burning of cow dung cakes laced with arsenic as a fuel in arsenic affected villages in Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1067-1070

  Pal, Arup ^a   Nayak, Bishwajit ^a   Das, Bhaskar ^a   Hossain, M Amir ^a,b   Ahamed, Sad ^a   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; COW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; CATTLE; COOKERY; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; HUMANS; INDIA; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 34848872769     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b709339j     Document Type: Article

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