Journal ArticleUnknown
Consumption of arsenic and other elements from vegetables and drinking water from an arsenic-contaminated area of Bangladesh
Author Affiliations
University of South Australia, Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment
Published InJournal of Hazardous Materials
Year2012
Citations246
Abstract
The study assesses the daily consumption by adults of arsenic (As) and other elements in drinking water and home-grown vegetables in a severely As-contaminated area of Bangladesh. Most of the examined elements in drinking water were below the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline values except As. The median concentrations of As, cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), Mn, nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn) in vegetables were 90 μg kg(-1), 111 μg kg(-1), 0.80 mg kg(-1), 168 μg kg(-1), 13 mg kg(-1), 2.1 mg kg(-1), 65 mg kg(-1), 1.7 mg kg(-1), and 50 mg kg(-1), respectively. Daily intakes of As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Pb, manganese (Mn), Ni, and Zn from vegetables and drinking water for adults…
View at Publisher
BORR does not host full-text PDFs. The button above takes you to the original publisher.