Heavy metals in drinking water: occurrences, implications, and future needs in develo** countries

S Chowdhury, MAJ Mazumder, O Al-Attas… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heavy metals in drinking water pose a threat to human health. Populations are exposed to
heavy metals primarily through water consumption, but few heavy metals can bioaccumulate …

Seven potential sources of arsenic pollution in Latin America and their environmental and health impacts

J Bundschuh, J Schneider, MA Alam, NK Niazi… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This review presents a holistic overview of the occurrence, mobilization, and pathways of
arsenic (As) from predominantly geogenic sources into different near-surface environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as potential agents in ameliorating heavy metal stress in plants

R Dhalaria, D Kumar, H Kumar, E Nepovimova, K Kuča… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Heavy metal accumulation in plants is a severe environmental problem, rising at an
expeditious rate. Heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic, mercury and lead are known …

The broad scope of health effects from chronic arsenic exposure: update on a worldwide public health problem

MF Naujokas, B Anderson, H Ahsan… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Concerns for arsenic exposure are not limited to toxic waste sites and massive
poisoning events. Chronic exposure continues to be a major public health problem …

Arsenic in groundwater of West Bengal, India: a review of human health risks and assessment of possible intervention options

S Bhowmick, S Pramanik, P Singh, P Mondal… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews how active research in West Bengal has unmasked the endemic
arsenism that has detrimental effects on the health of millions of people and their offspring. It …

Arsenic exposure and toxicology: a historical perspective

MF Hughes, BD Beck, Y Chen, AS Lewis… - Toxicological …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The metalloid arsenic is a natural environmental contaminant to which humans are routinely
exposed in food, water, air, and soil. Arsenic has a long history of use as a homicidal agent …

Association of arsenic with adverse pregnancy outcomes/infant mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Quansah, FA Armah, DK Essumang… - Environmental …, 2015 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Exposure to arsenic is one of the major global health problems, affecting> 300
million people worldwide, but arsenic's effects on human reproduction are uncertain …

Update of the risk assessment of inorganic arsenic in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Commission asked EFSA to update its 2009 risk assessment on
arsenic in food carrying out a hazard assessment of inorganic arsenic (iAs) and using the …

Heavy metal pollution in drinking water-a global risk for human health: A review

F Fernandez-Luqueno, F Lopez-Valdez… - African journal of …, 2013 - ajol.info
Water resources in the world have been profoundly influenced over the last years by human
activities, whereby the world is currently facing critical water supply and drinking water …

[HTML][HTML] Nanofiltration for arsenic removal: challenges, recent developments, and perspectives

TA Siddique, NK Dutta, N Roy Choudhury - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Arsenic (As) removal is of major significance because inorganic arsenic is highly toxic to all
life forms, is a confirmed carcinogen, and is of significant environmental concern. As …