Sampling and preservation artifacts in arsenic analysis: Implications for public health issues in developing countries

Current Science

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1426-1432

  Pandey, Piyush Kant ^a   Yadav, Sushama ^a   Nair, Sumita ^a   Pandey, Madhurima ^a  

^a BHILAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944259377     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. WHO Fact Sheet No 210, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 1999.
2. Puls, R. W. and Michael, J. B., Low-flow (minimal drawdown) ground-water sampling procedures. EPA Groundwater Issue, US EPA, 1996, vol. 540, S-95, 504.
3. Bednar, A. J., Garbarino, J. R., Ranville, J. F. and Wildeman, T. R., Preserving the distribution of inorganic arsenic species in groundwater and acid mine drainage samples. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2002, 36, 2213-2218.
4. APHA, Standards methods for the examination of water and wastewater. American Public Health Association, Washington DC, USA, 1992.
5. APHA, Standards methods for the examination of water and wastewater. American Public Health Association, Washington DC, USA, 1995.
6. US EPA, Rules and regulations. US Environmental Protection Agency), Federal Register 49, No. 209, USA, 1984.
7. WDNR, Groundwater Sampling Field Manual, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources PUBL-DG-038 96, WDNR, USA, 1996.
8. Stolzenburg, T. R. and Nichols, D. G., Effects of filtration method and sampling devices on inorganic chemistry of sampled well water. In Proc. 6th Natl. Symp. and Exposition on Aquifer Restoration and Groundwater Monitoring, National Water Well Association, Dublin, OH, USA, 1986, pp. 216-234.
9. Pohlmann, K. F., Icopin, G. A., McArthur, R. D. and Rosal, C. G., Evaluation of sampling and field-filtration methods for the analysis of trace metals in groundwater, EPA/600/SR-94/119, 1994.
10. Pandey, P. K., Khare, R. N., Sharma, S., Sar, S. K., Pandey, M., and Binayke, P., Arsenicosis and deteriorating groundwater quality: unfolding crisis in central-east India region. Curr. Sci., 1999, 77, 686-693.
11. Pandey, P. K., Yadav, S., Nair, S. and Bhui, A., Arsenic contamination of the environment: A new perspective from central-east India. Environ. Int., 2002, 28, 235-345.
12. Acharya, S. K., Arsenic contamination in groundwater affecfing major parts of southern West Bengal and parts of western Chhattisgarh: Source and mobilization process. Curr. Sci., 2002, 82, 740-744.
13. Heidlauf, D. T. and Bartlett, T. R., Effects of monitoring well purge and sample techniques on the concentration of metal unalytes in unfiltered groundwater samples. Proceedings of the NGWA Outdoor Action Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 1993.
14. Puls, R. W. and Barcelona, M. J., Groundwater sampling for metals analysis: EPA. Superfund Groundwater Issue, US EPA, 1989, 540, 4-89, 001, pp. 437-450.
15. HMSO, Methods for the Examination of Waters and Associated Materials: General principles of Sampling and Accuracy of Results, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London England. 1980.
16. IS, Methods of Sampling and Test (Physical and Chemical) for Water and Wastewater, Bureau of Indian Standard, New Delhi, 1988, IS 3025, part 37.