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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 262, Issue -, Pages 1056-1063Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.06.045
Keywords
Arsenic; Groundwater; Garden soil; Vegetables; Health risk
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- CRC-CARE
- ATSE Crawford Fund, Australia
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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 mu g kg(-1), 111 mu g kg(-1), 0.80 mg kg(-1), 168 mu g 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 were 839 mu g, 2.9 mu g, 20.8 mu g, 5.5 mu g, 0.35 mg, 56.4 mu g, 2.0 mg, 49.1 mu g, and 1.3 mg, respectively. The health risks from consuming vegetables were estimated by comparing these figures with the WHO/FAO provisional tolerable weekly or daily intake (PTWI or PTDI). Vegetables alone contribute 0.05 mu g of As and 0.008 mg of Cu per kg of body weight (bw) daily; 0.42 mu g of Cd, 8.77 mg of Pb, and 0.03 mg of Zn per kg bw weekly. Other food sources and particularly dietary staple rice need to be evaluated to determine the exact health risks from such foods. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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