The Assassin on the Move

Abhijit Das (), Joyashree Roy and Sayantan Chakrabarti ()
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Abhijit Das: Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College

A chapter in Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal, 2016, pp 31-33 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Initially consumption of water was considered to be the only sourceSource of arsenic ingestion. However, recent studies have pointed out that arsenic intake is not limited to water consumptionWater consumption . In fact, it has infested the entire food chainFood chain . Therefore, arsenic consumption is now happening in multiple forms and through diverse avenues. However, the far reaching implications of these additional impact routes are yet to be ascertained. Through literature reviews and in-depth interviews and case studiesCase studies , we bring forth these additional threats to the already menacing arsenic contamination of groundwater crisis.

Keywords: Arsenic Concentration; Edible Part; Arsenic Contamination; Arsenic Intake; Groundwater Arsenic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0682-1_8

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