Risk of arsenic exposure from drinking water and dietary components: Implications for risk management in rural Bengal

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1120-1127

  Halder, Dipti ^a,b   Bhowmick, Subhamoy ^b,c   Biswas, Ashis ^a,b   Chatterjee, Debashis ^b   Nriagu, Jerome ^d   Guha Mazumder, Debendra Nath ^e   Šlejkovec, Zdenka ^f   Jacks, Gunnar ^a   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)

^f JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC EXPOSURE; BANGLADESH; DAILY INTAKE; DIETARY COMPONENTS; DRINKING WATER STANDARDS; SAFE DRINKING WATER; SAFETY THRESHOLD; TOLERABLE DAILY INTAKE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARSENIC; RISK MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

HEALTH RISKS;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; DIET; DIURNAL VARIATION; DRINKING WATER; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; RICE; VEGETABLE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; DIET; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; ORYZA SATIVA; RISK MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; VEGETABLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BENGAL;

EID: 84872585435     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303522s     Document Type: Article

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