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Article: Dietary arsenic exposure in Bangladesh.(Research)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
- Author:
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BACKGROUND: Millions of people in Bangladesh are at risk of chronic arsenic toxicity from drinking contaminated groundwater, but little is known about diet as an additional source of As exposure.
METHODS: We employed a duplicate diet survey to quantify daily As intake in 47 women residing in Pabna, Bangladesh. All samples were analyzed for total As, and a subset of 35 samples were measured for inorganic arsenic (iAs) using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry equipped with a dynamic reaction cell.
RESULTS: Median daily total As intake was 48 [micro]g As/day [interquartile range (IQR), 33-67) from food and 4 [micro]g As/day (IQR, 2-152) from ...