Consumption of brown rice: A potential pathway for arsenic exposure in Rural Bengal

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4142-4148

  Halder, Dipti ^a,b   Bhowmick, Subhamoy ^b,c   Biswas, Ashis ^a,b   Mandal, Ujjal ^b   Nriagu, Jerome ^d   Guha Mazumdar, Debendra Nath ^e   Chatterjee, Debashis ^b   Bhattacharya, Prosun ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e DNGM Research Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; ARSENIC EXPOSURE; AVERAGE LENGTH; BROWN RICE; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; DAILY INTAKE; GRAIN SIZE; LOWER COST; POTENTIAL HEALTH; POTENTIAL RISKS; RICE GRAINS; RICE SAMPLES; RURAL VILLAGES; TOLERABLE DAILY INTAKE;

ARSENIC; HEALTH RISKS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; GUIDELINE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RICE; RURAL AREA; VULNERABILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BROWN RICE; COST; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; GRAIN; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; RICE; RURAL AREA; SKIN DEFECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARSENIC; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; ORYZA SATIVA; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

BENGAL;

EID: 84859367116     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204298a     Document Type: Article

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