Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com purposes [1]. A large area of the world experiences a huge contamination in groundwater due to mixing of different toxic and minerals and heavy metals either naturally or unorganized development of human civilization [2,3]. The Arsenic is one of the most important and fatal among these minerals. The high concentrations of arsenic (As) in drinking wa...

In the past several years, concern about the presence of arsenic (As) in apple juice has grown greatly due to its publicity in the popular media. Arsenic can enter apple juice either naturally through environmental uptake by the apple trees or anthropogenically through the use of pesticides and/or contamination during processing. Regardless of how it enters the juice, the presence of arsenic is...

We show that iron oxide xerogels can quantitatively adsorb, store, and release aqueous arsenic(iii), enabling a new arsenic monitoring paradigm where sample contamination is adsorbed onto solid sorbents for transportation to laboratories analysis.

abstract arsenic (as) contamination of soils is a global problem. legumes are often used in remediation of contaminated sites because of their capacity to fix nitrogen. in the present study, the effects of inoculation of bean (by rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli) on plant uptake and tolerance to arsenic were investigated. an experiment with a factorial arrangement, two levels of inoculation...

The Indian subcontinent is the only region where arsenic contamination of drinking water coexists with widespread resistance to antimonial drugs that are used to treat the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis. We have previously proposed that selection for parasite resistance within visceral leishmaniasis patients who have been exposed to trivalent arsenic results in cross-resistance to the...

Arsenic (As) poses a pervasive environmental contamination problem on global scale. Human activities have significantly contributed to the extensive presence of arsenic in soils. Recently, there has been growing interest exploring potential biochar addressing issue As-contaminated This study focused evaluating effects two types biochar, namely straw and iron-modified composition soil microbial ...

Preservation of museum objects with inorganic arsenic compounds and contamination of the surroundings has previously been documented. The present study addresses the exposure of museum staff by measuring arsenicals in urine. After 1 week without exposure, urinary samples were taken before and after handling of preserved skins and analysed by HPLC-ICP-MS for inorganic arsenic, arsenic metabolite...

Groundwater is the main source of water for domestic use in Nigeria because it is perceived to be clean. The presence of geogenic contaminants (arsenic and fluoride), and the level of awareness of their presence in groundwater in Ibadan, Nigeria was examined in this study. A total of one hundred and twenty groundwater samples were collected from hand dug wells which tap into shallow aquifers an...

Arsenic contamination in groundwater affecting West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh is a serious environmental problem. Contamination is extensive in the low-lying areas of Bhagirathi–Ganga delta, located mainly to the east of the Bhagirathi River. A few isolated As-contaminated areas occur west of the Bhagirathi River and over the lower parts of the Damodar river fan-delta. The Damodar being a P...

In their paper “Groundwater Contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India,” Chowdhury et al. (1) address arsenic contamination in groundwater from two countries in Asia. Although arsenic contamination is a serious concern for the entire world, Chowdhury et al. bring out the proportion of people at risk in these areas by measuring arsenic levels using various biochemical parameters, but the...