Threat of arsenic contamination, salinity and water pollution in agricultural practices of Sundarban Delta, India, and mitigation strategies

A Nath, S Samanta, S Banerjee, AA Danda… - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The paper through a critical appraisal of the agricultural practices in the Indian Sundarban
deltaic region explores the tripartite problems of arsenic biomagnification, salinity of arable …

Rice grain arsenic and nutritional content during post harvesting to cooking: a review on arsenic bioavailability and bioaccessibility in humans

D Mridha, PC Gorain, M Joardar, A Das… - Food Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is considered as the staple food for 50% of the world's population.
Humans are exposed to arsenic (As) through rice consumption, which is a global health …

[HTML][HTML] Zinc and iron enrichment of vermicompost can reduce the arsenic load in rice grain: an investigation through pot and field experiments

S Sengupta, K Bhattacharyya, J Mandal… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The heavy metalloid arsenic (As), occurring in both trivalent and pentavalent is extremely
toxic and has detrimental effect on humans through water-soil-crop transfer. Previously …

Quality and health risk evaluation for groundwater in Nadia district, West Bengal: an approach on its suitability for drinking and domestic purpose

A Das, SS Das, NR Chowdhury, M Joardar… - Groundwater for …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work comprises the evaluation of twenty physico-chemical parameters in 110
ground water samples from 17 blocks of Nadia district located in West Bengal, for its quality …

Health risk assessment of co-occurrence of toxic fluoride and arsenic in groundwater of Dharmanagar region, North Tripura (India)

P Bhattacharya, S Adhikari, AC Samal, R Das… - Groundwater for …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study assessed the co-occurrence of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater of
Dharmanagar region (Tripura, India). Co-occurrence of the two toxicants was observed in …

Deficit irrigation and organic amendments can reduce dietary arsenic risk from rice: Introducing machine learning-based prediction models from field data

S Sengupta, K Bhattacharyya, J Mandal… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dietary rice consumption can assume a significant pathway of the carcinogenic arsenic (As)
in the human system. In search of a viable mitigation strategy, a field experiment was …

Flow of arsenic between rice grain and water: Its interaction, accumulation and distribution in different fractions of cooked rice

NR Chowdhury, A Das, M Joardar, A De… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) contaminated water is a major threat to human health when used for drinking,
cooking and irrigational purposes. Rice being consumed by 50% of the world's population …

Arsenic toxicity in livestock growing in arsenic endemic and control sites of West Bengal: risk for human and environment

A Das, M Joardar, NR Chowdhury, A De… - … geochemistry and health, 2021 - Springer
The present study aims to estimate geochemical arsenic toxicity in the domestic livestock
and possible risk for human and environment caused by them. Daily dietary arsenic intake of …

Health effect and risk assessment of the populations exposed to different arsenic levels in drinking water and foodstuffs from four villages in arsenic endemic Gaighata …

M Joardar, A Das, NR Chowdhury, D Mridha… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Health exposure and perception of risk assessment have been evaluated on the populations
exposed to different arsenic levels in drinking water (615, 301, 48, 20 µg/l), rice grain (792 …

Pollution index and health risk assessment of arsenic through different groundwater sources and its load on soil-paddy-rice system in a part of Murshidabad district of …

A Das, M Joardar, A De, D Mridha… - Groundwater for …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the As-contamination scenario in groundwater and treated
drinking water sources from all the 9 gram panchayats under Raninagar-II block …