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Variation of 66 elements in European bottled mineral waters
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Studying the large natural variation in concentration for many of the 66 studied elements it becomes clear that the authors know little about the natural variation of element concentration in water and the health effects of most elements in drinking water.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 1999-12-15. It has received 153 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bottled water & Mineral water.read more
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Drinking water quality in the Ethiopian section of the East African Rift Valley I--data and health aspects.
Clemens Reimann,Kjell Bjorvatn,Bjørn Frengstad,Zenebe Melaku,Redda Tekle-Haimanot,Ulrich Siewers +5 more
TL;DR: Drinking water samples were collected throughout the Ethiopian part of the Rift Valley, separated into water drawn from deep wells, shallow wells, hot springs, springs, rivers and rivers, finding 86% of all wells yield water that fails to pass the quality standards set for drinking water.
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Contamination of Canadian and European bottled waters with antimony from PET containers
TL;DR: Comparison with the natural abundance of Sb in pristine groundwaters, water bottled commercially in polypropylene, analyses of source waters prior to bottling, and addition of uncontaminated groundwater to PET bottles, provides unambiguous evidence of S b leaching from the containers.
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EFSA CONTAM Panel (EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain), 2015. Scientific Opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of nickel in food and drinking water
TL;DR: Overall, the CONTAM Panel concluded that, at the current levels of acute dietary exposure to Ni, there is a concern that Nisensitized individuals may develop eczematous flare-up skin reactions.
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Trace and ultratrace metals in bottled waters: survey of sources worldwide and comparison with refillable metal bottles.
Michael Krachler,William Shotyk +1 more
TL;DR: The investigated coated aluminium and stainless steel bottles are harmless with respect to leaching of trace metals into drinking water, and should be selected with great care to avoid contamination of beverages with harmful amounts of potentially toxic trace metals such as Sb and Tl.
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Chemical quality of bottled waters from three cities in eastern Alabama.
TL;DR: A one-way parametric analysis of variance (ANOVA) conducted on pH, conductivity, IC, TOC, Ca, Na, K, Mg, Se, sulfate, chloride and nitrate + nitrite values for 10 brands of bottled water to ascertain the homogeneity of variances within and between the brands, suggested significant differences in variances across the brands.
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Arsenic in ground water in six districts of West bengal, India: the biggest arsenic calamity in the world. Part 2. Arsenic concentration in drinking water, hair, nails, urine, skin-scale and liver tissue (biopsy) of the affected people.
Dipankar Das,Amit Chatterjee,Badal Kumar Mandal,Gautam Samanta,Dipankar Chakraborti,Bhabatosh Chanda +5 more
TL;DR: In six districts of West Bengal arsenic has been found in ground water above the maximum permissible limit recommended by the WHO, and more than 175,000 people are showing arsenical skin lesions that are the late stages of manifestation of arsenic toxicity.
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Arsenic in ground water in six districts of West Bengal, India: the biggest arsenic calamity in the world. Part I. Arsenic species in drinking water and urine of the affected people
Amit Chatterjee,Dipankar Das,Badal Kumar Mandal,Tarit Roy Chowdhury,Gautam Samanta,Dipankar Chakraborti +5 more
TL;DR: Arsenic in ground water has been found above the maximum permissible limit in six districts of West Bengal covering an area of 34 000 km2 with a population of 30 million as mentioned in this paper.
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