Arsenic burden from cooked rice in the populations of arsenic affected and nonaffected areas and Kolkata city in west-Bengal, India

Pal, A, Chowdhury, U, Mondal, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5144-626X, Das, B, Nayak, B and Chakraborti, D 2009, 'Arsenic burden from cooked rice in the populations of arsenic affected and nonaffected areas and Kolkata city in west-Bengal, India' , Environmental Science & Technology, 43 (9) , pp. 3349-3355.

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Abstract

Arsenic contamination of rice irrigated with contaminated groundwater contributes to the additional arsenic burden of the population where rice is the staple food. In an arsenic contaminated area, an experimental field-based study done on nine fields elucidated significant positive correlation between arsenic in irrigation water and soil, irrigation water and rice, and also soil and rice both for Boro (groundwater) and Aman (rainwater) rice. Speciation studies showed that for both Boro (cooked) and Aman (raw) rice from contaminated area, 90% of total recovered arsenic was inorganic. In arsenic contaminated, uncontaminated villages, and Kolkata city, daily quantities of arsenic ingested by adult population from cooked rice diet are equivalent to 6.5, 1.8, and 2.3 L, respectively, of drinking water containing WHO guideline value. In contaminated area, daily intake only from cooked Boro rice for 34.6% of the samples exceeded the WHO recommended MTDI value (2 mu g In-As day(-1) kg(-1) body wt), whereas daily intake from Aman rice was below MTDI value as was rice from uncontaminated areas and Kolkata city. Our study indicated that employing traditional rice cooking method as followed in Bengal delta and using water having arsenic <3 mu g L(-1) for cooking, actual exposure to arsenic from rice would be much less.

Item Type:	Article
Themes:	Health and Wellbeing
Schools:	Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences > Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences
Journal or Publication Title:	Environmental Science & Technology
Publisher:	ACS Publications
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	Publication
Funders:	Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
Depositing User:	Dr Debapriya Mondal
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2013 12:00
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 16:26
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/28461

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