Arsenic species in raw and cooked rice: Implications for human health in rural Bengal

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 497-498, Issue , 2014, Pages 200-208

  Halder, Dipti ^a,b   Biswas, Ashis ^a,b,e   Sˇlejkovec, Zdenka ^c   Chatterjee, Debashis ^b   Nriagu, Jerome ^d   Jacks, Gunnar ^a   Bhattacharya, Prosun ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic speciation; Cooked rice; Daily intake; Health risk assessment; Raw rice

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREAS;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC SPECIATION; ARSENIC SPECIES; COOKED RICE; DAILY INTAKE; EXCESS WATERS; RAW RICE; RISK REDUCTIONS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

ARSENIC; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACCUMULATION; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH IMPACT; RICE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKED FOOD; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; RAW FOOD; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SOUTH ASIA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS; ARSENIC POISONING; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84905733711     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.075     Document Type: Article

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