Aresnic In Crop Ecosystem And Potential Health Risk Assessment

ISBN-13: 9783659135651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Alok Chandra Samal;S C Santra

Opis

Groundwater arsenic and its entry into the human food chain cause a great threat to human health through their consumption in Gangetic delta of West Bengal, India. The review part focused on the arsenic chemistry, source, occurrence, metabolism & toxic effect, global arsenic scenario, arsenic flow in water-soil-plant & microbial system. The experimental part contains the details methodology and study of arsenic flow in crop ecosystem in highly groundwater arsenic affected areas of West Bengal, India and its potential health risk to human through food chain. The findings are thoroughly discussed and concluding with some remedial measures.

O autorze

Samal, Alok ChandraDr. Alok Chandra Samal(M.Phil,Ph.D) worked as Tech. Asst & continuing postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Science, University of Kalyani,India. He was a post doctoral fellow at UniSA & received Australian Endeavour Research Award in 2011. He has 12years of research experience in Environmental toxicology & published more than 40research papers