Evaluation of an arsenic test kit for rapid well screening in Bangladesh

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 11213-11219

  George, Christine Marie ^a   Zheng, Yan ^b,f,g   Graziano, Joseph H ^c   Rasul, Shahriar Bin ^d   Hossain, Zakir ^e   Mey, Jacob L ^f   Van Geen, Alexander ^f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d Participatory Management Initiative for Development (PMID)   (Bangladesh)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (Bangladesh)

^f Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC IN GROUNDWATER; BANGLADESH; BLANKET TESTING; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SHORT REACTION TIME; TEST KITS;

ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; WELLS;

WELL TESTING;

DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ARSENIC; DECADAL VARIATION; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GUIDELINE; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; VILLAGE; WELL WATER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACCURACY; ARSENIC TEST KIT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER WELLS;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84868217854     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300253p     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. UNICEF, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Bangladesh National Drinking Water Quality Survey of 2009, 2009.
2. Marshall, G.; Ferreccio, C.; Yuan, Y.; Bates, M. N.; Steinmaus, C.; Selvin, S.; Liaw, J.; Smith, A. H. Fifty-year study of lung and bladder cancer mortality in Chile related to arsenic in drinking water J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 2007, 99, 920-928
3. Chen, Y.; Ahsan, H. Cancer burden from arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh Am. J. Public Health 2004, 94, 741-744
4. Morales, K. H.; Ryan, L.; Kuo, T. L.; Wu, M. M.; Chen, C. J. Risk of internal cancers from arsenic in drinking water Environ. Health Perspect. 2000, 108, 655-661
5. Calderon, J.; Navarro, M. E.; Jimenez-Capdeville, M. E.; Santos-Diaz, M. A.; Golden, A.; Rodriguez-Leyva, I.; Borja-Aburto, V.; Diaz-Barriga, F. Exposure to arsenic and lead and neuropsychological development in Mexican children Environ. Res. 2001, 85, 69-76
6. Wasserman, G. A.; Liu, X.; Parvez, F.; Factor-Litvak, P.; Ahsan, H.; Levy, D.; Kline, J.; van Geen, A.; Mey, J.; Slavkovich, V. Arsenic and manganese exposure and children's intellectual function Neurotoxicology 2011, 32, 450-457
7. Chen, Y.; Factor-Litvak, P.; Howe, G. R.; Graziano, J. H.; Brandt-Rauf, P.; Parvez, F.; van Geen, A.; Ahsan, H. Arsenic exposure from drinking water, dietary intakes of B vitamins and folate, and risk of high blood pressure in Bangladesh: A population-based, cross-sectional study Am. J. Epidemiol. 2007, 165, 541-552
8. Chen, Y.; Graziano, J. H.; Parvez, F.; Liu, M.; Slavkovich, V.; Kalra, T.; Argos, M.; Islam, T.; Ahmed, A.; Rakibuz-Zaman, M. Arsenic exposure from drinking water and mortality from cardiovascular disease in Bangladesh: Prospective cohort study Br. Med. J. 2011, 342, d2431
9. Haque, R.; Mazumder, D. N.; Samanta, S.; Ghosh, N.; Kalman, D.; Smith, M. M.; Mitra, S.; Santra, A.; Lahiri, S.; Das, S. Arsenic in drinking water and skin lesions: Dose-response data from West Bengal, India Epidemiology 2003, 14, 174-182
10. Ahsan, H.; Chen, Y.; Parvez, F.; Zablotska, L.; Argos, M.; Hussain, I.; Momotaj, H.; Levy, D.; Cheng, Z.; Slavkovich, V. Arsenic exposure from drinking water and risk of premalignant skin lesions in Bangladesh: Baseline results from the health effects of arsenic longitudinal study Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006, 163, 1138-1148
11. Ahmed, M. F.; Ahuja, S.; Alauddin, M.; Hug, S. J.; Lloyd, J. R.; Pfaff, A.; Pichler, T.; Saltikov, C.; Stute, M.; van Geen, A. Epidemiology. Ensuring safe drinking water in Bangladesh Science 2006, 314, 1687-1688
12. Van Geen, A.; Ahsan, H.; Horneman, A. H.; Dhar, R. K.; Zheng, Y.; Hussain, I.; Ahmed, K. M.; Gelman, A.; Stute, M.; Simpson, H. J. Promotion of well-switching to mitigate the current arsenic crisis in Bangladesh Bull. World Health Org. 2002, 80, 732-737
13. Van Geen, A.; Ahmed, K. M.; Seddique, A. A.; Shamsudduha, M. Community wells to mitigate the arsenic crisis in Bangladesh Bull. World Health Org. 2003, 81, 632-638
14. van Geen, A.; Cheng, Z.; Jia, Q.; Seddique, A. A.; Rahman, M. W.; Rahman, M. M.; Ahmed, K. M. Monitoring 51 community wells in Araihazar, Bangladesh, for up to 5 years: Implications for arsenic mitigation J. Environ. Sci. Health, Part A: Toxic/Hazard. Subst. Environ. Eng. 2007, 42, 1729-1740
15. Bangladesh Arsenic Mitigation Water Supply Program. www.bamwsp.org/ Survey%20Results.htm.
16. George, C. M.; Graziano, J. H.; Mey, J. L.; van Geen, A. Impact on arsenic exposure of a growing proportion of untested wells in Bangladesh Environ. Health 2012, 11, 7
17. Statistics, U.N.C.s.F.a.t.B.B.o. Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2006, Volume 1.
18. Pathey, P. (2009). Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women: Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2009. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Volume 1: Technical Report.
19. Feldmann, J. Onsite Testing for Arsenic: Field Test Kits Rev. Environ. Contam. 2008, 197, 61-75
20. Arora, M.; Megharaj, M.; Naidu, R. Arsenic testing field kits: some considerations and recommendations Environ. Geochem. Health 2009, 31, 45-48
21. Van Geen, A.; Cheng, Z.; Seddique, A. A.; Hoque, M. A.; Gelman, A.; Graziano, J. H.; Ahsan, H.; Parvez, F.; Ahmed, K. M. Reliability of a commercial kit to test groundwater for arsenic in Bangladesh Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39, 299-303
22. Gutzeit, H. Pharm. Zeitung 1879, 24, 263
23. Cheng, Z.; Zheng, Y.; Mortlock, R.; Van Geen, A. Rapid multi-element analysis of groundwater by high-resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2004, 379, 512-518
24. Jakariya, M.; Vahter, M.; Rahman, M.; Wahed, M. A.; Hore, S. K.; Bhattacharya, P.; Jacks, G.; Persson, L.Å. Screening of arsenic in tubewell water with field test kits: Evaluation of the method from public health perspective Sci. Total Environ. 2007, 379, 167-175
25. Steinmaus, C. M.; George, C. M.; Kalman, D. A.; Smith, A. H. Evaluation of two new arsenic field test kits capable of detecting arsenic water concentrations close to 10 microg/L Environ. Sci. Technol. 2006, 40, 3362-3366
26. Sankararamakrishnan, N.; Chauhan, D.; Nickson, R.; Tripathi, R.; Iyengar, L. Evaluation of two commercial field test kits used for screening of groundwater for arsenic in Northern India Sci. Total Environ. 2008, 401, 162-167
27. Safarzadeh-Amiri, A.; Fowlie, P.; Kazi, A.; Siraj, S.; Ahmed, S.; Akbor, A. Validation of analysis of arsenic in water samples using Wagtech Digital Arsenator Sci. Total Environ. 2011, 409, 2662-2667
28. Siegfried, K.; Endes, C.; Bhuiyan, A. F. M. K.; Kuppardt, A.; Mattusch, J.; van der Meer, J. R.; Chatzinotas, A.; Harms, H. Field testing of arsenic in groundwater samples of Bangladesh using a test kit based on lyophilized bioreporter bacteria Environ. Sci. Technol. 2012, 46, 3281-3287
29. Madajewicz, M.; Pfaff, A.; van Geen, A.; Graziano, G.; Hussein, I.; Momotaj, H.; Sylvi, R.; Ahsan, H. Can information alone both improve awareness and change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh J. Dev. Econ. 2007, 84, 731-754
30. Opar, A.; Pfaff, A.; Seddique, A. A.; Ahmed, K. M.; Graziano, J. H.; van Geen, A. Responses of 6500 households to arsenic mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh Health Place 2007, 13, 164-172
31. Horizontal Learning Program Learning Note: Pay-for-Use Testing, Marking & Switching of Wells. Department of Public Health Engineering, Bangladesh, Water Sanitation Programme of World Bank, and United Nation's Children's Fund, 2011.
32. Zheng, Y.; Ravenscroft, P.; Rahman, S. M.; Hakim, S. A. I.;; Ng, J. C.;; Noller, B. C.; Naidu, R.;; Bundschudh, J.;; Battacharya, P. Pay-for-use arsenic testing: Promoting demand-driven mitigation and monitoring in Bangladesh. Understanding the Geological and Medical Interface of Arsenic-As 2012; CRC Press: Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp 519-521.