Introduction to arsenic contamination and health risk assessment with special reference to Bangladesh

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 197, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-15

  Caussy, Deoraj ^a   Priest, Nicholas D ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

BANGLADESH; CHEMISTRY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 57749184986     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-79284-2_1     Document Type: Editorial

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