Additional danger of arsenic exposure through inhalation from burning of cow dung cakes laced with arsenic as a fuel in arsenic affected villages in Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra plain

Arup Pal; Bishwajit Nayak; Bhaskar Das; M. Amir Hossain; Sad Ahamed; Dipankar Chakraborti

doi:10.1039/B709339J

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Additional danger of arsenic exposure through inhalation from burning of cow dung cakes laced with arsenic as a fuel in arsenic affected villages in Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra plain

Arup Pal , Bishwajit Nayak , Bhaskar Das , M. Amir Hossain , Sad Ahamed and Dipankar Chakraborti

J. Environ. Monit., 2007, 9, 1067-1070

DOI: 10.1039/B709339J
Received 19 Jun 2007, Accepted 15 Aug 2007
First published on the web 06 Sep 2007

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In arsenic contaminated areas of the Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area 569749 sq. km; population over 500 million) where traditionally cow dung cake is used as a fuel in unventilated ovens for cooking purposes, people are simply exposed to 1859.2 ng arsenic per day through direct inhalation, of which 464.8 ng could be absorbed in respiratory tract.

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Bishwajit Nayak
Bhaskar Das
M. Amir Hossain
Sad Ahamed
Dipankar Chakraborti

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