Effect of rice-cooking water to the daily arsenic intake in Bangladesh: Results of field surveys and rice-cooking experiments

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-201

  Ohno, K ^a   Matsuo, Y ^a   Kimura, T ^a   Yanase, T ^a   Rahman, M H ^b   Magara, Y ^a   Matsushita, T ^a   Matsui, Y ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bangladesh; Cooking water; Daily intake; Duplicate portion sampling; Rice

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; COOKING WATER; DAILY INTAKE; DUPLICATE PORTION SAMPLING; RICE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; POTABLE WATER; SURVEYS; WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH RISK; RICE; SAMPLING; WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; COOKERY; ORYZA SATIVA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 60849128505     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.844     Document Type: Article

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