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Arsenic and other elements in hair, nails, and skin-scales of arsenic victims in West Bengal, India
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It is revealed that in the arsenic-affected areas of WB, the concentrations of other toxic elements in drinking water and foodstuff should be monitored to evaluate the arsenic poisoning.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2004-06-29. It has received 252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Arsenic.read more
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Arsenic removal from water/wastewater using adsorbents—A critical review
Dinesh Mohan,Charles U. Pittman +1 more
TL;DR: Strong acids and bases seem to be the best desorbing agents to produce arsenic concentrates, and some commercial adsorbents which include resins, gels, silica, treated silica tested for arsenic removal come out to be superior.
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Human exposure to toxic metals via contaminated dust: Bio-accumulation trends and their potential risk estimation.
Jawad Mohmand,Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani,Mauro Fasola,Ambreen Alamdar,Irfan Mustafa,Nadeem Ali,Liangpo Liu,Siyuan Peng,Heqing Shen +8 more
TL;DR: Bioaccumulation patterns showed that dust exposure is one of the major routes into human body for Cd, Pb, Co, Mn and Cr, while the burden of Zn, Cu, and Ni can be more linked to dietary sources.
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Validity of human nails as a biomarker of arsenic and selenium exposure: A review.
TL;DR: The use of human nails to measure exposure to arsenic and selenium is discussed in the context of the biomarker validation framework, laying the framework for future studies measuring elemental composition of nails.
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Arsenic in groundwater of West Bengal, India: A review of human health risks and assessment of possible intervention options.
Subhamoy Bhowmick,Sreemanta Pramanik,Payel Singh,Priyanka Mondal,Debashis Chatterjee,Jerome O. Nriagu +5 more
TL;DR: Comparing and contrast the similarities and differences in arsenic occurrence in West Bengal with those of other parts of the world and assess the unique socio-cultural factors that determine the risks of exposure to arsenic in local groundwater are compared.
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What is the best biomarker to assess arsenic exposure via drinking water
TL;DR: Whatever epidemiological studies are, the urinary and toenail biomarkers are useful to provide indications of internal dose, and micronuclei assay can be complementary use as biomarker of early effects.
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Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed three-stage sampling: simple random sampling, two stage sampling and three stage sampling, and two-stage and double sampling, respectively, to estimate the mean and variance from censored data sets.
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Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater
TL;DR: Sedimentological study of the Ganges alluvial sediments shows that the arsenic derives from the reductive dissolution of arsenic-rich iron oxyhydroxides, which in turn are derived from weathering of base-metal sulphides.
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Arsenic contamination of groundwater and drinking water in Vietnam: a human health threat.
Michael Berg,Hong Con Tran,Thi Chuyen Nguyen,Hung Viet Pham,Roland Schertenleib,Walter Giger +5 more
TL;DR: The high arsenic concentrations found in the tubewells indicate that several million people consuming untreated groundwater might be at a considerable risk of chronic arsenic poisoning.
Groundwater Arsenic Contamination inBangladesh andWestBengal, India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have collected 10,991 water smples from 42 arsenic-affected districts in Bangladesh for analysis, 58,166 water samples from nine arsenic affected districts inWestBengal.
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Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.
Uttam Kumar Chowdhury,Bhajan Kumar Biswas,Tarit Roy Chowdhury,Gautam Samanta,Badal Kumar Mandal,Gautam C. Basu,C. R. Chanda,Dilip Lodh,Khitish Chandra Saha,Subhas K. Mukherjee,Sibtosh Roy,Saiful Kabir,Quazi Quamruzzaman,Dipankar Chakraborti +13 more
TL;DR: Thousands of hair, nail, and urine samples from people living in arsenic-affected villages have been analyzed to date; Bangladesh and West Bengal, 93 and 77% samples, on an average, contained arsenic above the normal/toxic level.