Fate of arsenic in living systems: Implications for sustainable and safe food chains

MU Rehman, R Khan, A Khan, W Qamar… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Arsenic, a group 1 carcinogen for humans, is abundant as compared to other trace elements
in the environment and is present mainly in the Earth's crust and soil. The arsenic …

The groundwater arsenic contamination in the Bengal Basin-A review in brief

A Sarkar, B Paul, GK Darbha - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of arsenic in the groundwater of the densely-populated Bengal Basin evolved
as a mass-poisoning agent and is a reason for the misery of millions of people living here …

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 …

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 …

Exogenous melatonin regulates endogenous phytohormone homeostasis and thiol-mediated detoxification in two indica rice cultivars under arsenic stress

S Samanta, A Banerjee, A Roychoudhury - Plant Cell Reports, 2021 - Springer
Key message Melatonin enhanced arsenic (As) tolerance by inhibiting As bioaccumulation,
modulating the expression of As transporters and phytohormone homeostasis, leading to …

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 …

Distribution, prevalence and health risk assessment of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater from lower Gangetic plain in West Bengal, India

A De, D Mridha, M Joardar, A Das… - Groundwater for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Distribution pattern of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater (n= 984) from 35 wards of Rajpur-
Sonarpur Municipality and its associated health risk have been evaluated. Presence 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 …

Geogenic arsenic in groundwater: Challenges, gaps, and future directions

MT Alarcón-Herrera, M Gutiérrez - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
As remains a global threat to human health, with an estimated 220 million people exposed
to non-potable water (As> 10 μg L− 1) and As-containing staple food. Recent geochemical …