Comparison of drinking water, raw rice and cooking of rice as arsenic exposure routes in three contrasting areas of West Bengal, India

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 463-477

  Mondal, Debapriya ^a,b   Banerjee, Mayukh ^a,b   Kundu, Manjari ^a,b   Banerjee, Nilanjana ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Udayan ^a,b   Giri, Ashok K ^b   Ganguli, Bhaswati ^c   Roy, Sugata Sen ^c   Polya, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Exposure routes; Probabilistic risk assessment; Rice; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; FRESH WATER;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REMEDIATION; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; COOKING; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INDIA; NEOPLASM; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; COOKING; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; INDIA; NEOPLASMS; ORYZA SATIVA; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 78049256760     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-010-9319-5     Document Type: Article

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