Arsenic levels from different land-use settings in Pakistan: Bio-accumulation and estimation of potential human health risk via dust exposure

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 187-194

  Subhani, Marghoob ^a   Mustafa, Irfan ^a   Alamdar, Ambreen ^b   Katsoyiannis, Ioannis A ^c   Ali, Nadeem ^d   Huang, Qingyu ^b   Peng, Siyuan ^b   Shen, Heqing ^b   Eqani, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Public Health and Environment Division Department of Biosciences COMSAT Institute of Information and Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Dust; Hair; Hazard index; Nails; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CARCINOGEN; DUST;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; DUST; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH RISK; LAND USE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HAIR LEVEL; HAZARD INDEX; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LAND USE; NAIL; PAKISTAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HAIR; INDUSTRY;

PAKISTAN;

ARSENIC; CARCINOGENS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIR; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; NAILS; PAKISTAN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84923013471     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.02.019     Document Type: Article

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