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Risk of Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water and Dietary Components: Implications for Risk Management in Rural Bengal
Dipti Halder,Dipti Halder,Subhamoy Bhowmick,Subhamoy Bhowmick,Ashis Biswas,Ashis Biswas,Debashis Chatterjee,Jerome O. Nriagu,Debendra Nath Guha Mazumder,Zdenka Šlejkovec,Gunnar Jacks,Prosun Bhattacharya +11 more
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Any effort to mitigate the As exposure of the villagers in Bengal must consider the risk of As exposure from rice consumption together with drinking water, according to the estimates of exposure via dietary and drinking water routes.Abstract:
This study investigates the risk of arsenic (As) exposure to the communities in rural Bengal, even when they have been supplied with As safe drinking water. The estimates of exposure via dietary an ...read more
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Metal(loid)s (As, Hg, Se, Pb and Cd) in paddy soil: Bioavailability and potential risk to human health.
Rubina Khanam,Anjani Kumar,Amaresh Kumar Nayak,Shahid,Rahul Tripathi,Subramaniyan Vijayakumar,Debarati Bhaduri,Upendra Kumar,Sangita Mohanty,Periyasamy Panneerselvam,Dibyendu Chatterjee,B.S. Satapathy,H Pathak +12 more
TL;DR: This review summarizes mobilization, translocation and speciation mechanism of these metal(loids) in soil-plant continuum as well as available cost-effective remediation measures and future research needs to eliminate the long-term risk to human health.
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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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A review of arsenic in crops, vegetables, animals and food products.
TL;DR: This review tries to present the available data on As levels in various dietary sources, and the variation in the levels of inorganic and organic As species in different food items influence the associated As toxicity.
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High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans
Mayukh Banerjee,Nilanjana Banerjee,Pritha Bhattacharjee,Debapriya Mondal,Debapriya Mondal,P. R. Lythgoe,Mario Martínez,Jianxin Pan,David A. Polya,Ashok K. Giri +9 more
TL;DR: Elevated genotoxic effects, as measured by micronuclei in urothelial cells, are associated with the staple consumption of cooked rice with >200 μg/kg arsenic, which raises considerable concerns over the threat to human health.
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Arsenic in foodchain and community health risk: a study in Gangetic West Bengal
Subhas Chandra Santra,Alok Chandra Samal,Piyal Bhattacharya,Satabdi Banerjee,Anirban Biswas,Jayjit Majumdar +5 more
TL;DR: The people having poor nutrition were found to be affected more from arsenic toxicity than the people having adequate nutrition, and probable sustainable mitigation strategies to battle against the curse of arsenic contamination are suggested.
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TL;DR: The results of field injection of molasses, nitrate, and low-arsenic water show that organic carbon or its degradation products may quickly mobilize arsenic, oxidants may lower arsenic concentrations, and sorption of arsenic is limited by saturation of aquifer materials.
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Role of metal-reducing bacteria in arsenic release from Bengal delta sediments
Farhana Islam,Andrew G. Gault,Christopher Boothman,David A. Polya,John M. Charnock,John M. Charnock,Debashis Chatterjee,Jonathan R. Lloyd +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that anaerobic metal-reducing bacteria can play a key role in the mobilization of arsenic in sediments collected from a contaminated aquifer in West Bengal and that, for the sediments in this study, arsenic release took place after Fe(iii) reduction, rather than occurring simultaneously.
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Arsenic contamination of Bangladesh paddy field soils: implications for rice contribution to arsenic consumption.
Andrew A. Meharg,M.m. Rahman +1 more
TL;DR: Assessment of arsenic levels in paddy soils throughout Bangladesh showed that arsenic levels were elevated in zones where arsenic in groundwater used for irrigation was high, and where these tube-wells have been in operation for the longest period of time.
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