Arsenic and heavy metal contamination of rice, pulses and vegetables grown in Samta village, Bangladesh
Alam, M. G. M., Snow, E.T. and Tanaka, A. 2003, Arsenic and heavy metal contamination of rice, pulses and vegetables grown in Samta village, Bangladesh. In Chappell, Willard R., Abernathy, Charles O., Calderon, Rebecca L. and Thomas, David J. (ed), Arsenic exposure and health effects V : proceedings of the fifth international conference on arsenic exposure and health effects, July 14-18, 2002, San Diego, California, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp.103-114, doi: 10.1016/B978-044451441-7/50009-9.
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Arsenic and heavy metal contamination of rice, pulses and vegetables grown in Samta village, Bangladesh
Arsenic exposure and health effects V : proceedings of the fifth international conference on arsenic exposure and health effects, July 14-18, 2002, San Diego, California
Arsenic contaminated water from tube wells has become the major health problem threatening millions of people in Bangladesh. However, the arsenic (As) contaminated water is not just used for drinking, it is used to irrigate crops, and to wash and prepare food. Contamination of agricultural soils by long-term irrigation with As contaminated water can lead to contamination and phyto-accumulation of the food crops with As and other toxic metals. As a consequence, dietary exposure to As and other toxic metals may contribute substantially to the adverse health effects caused by the contaminated tube wells in Bangladesh. Various vegetables, rice, pulses and the grass pea were sampled in Samta village in the Jessore district of Bangladesh and screened for As, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. These local food crops provide the majority of the nutritional intake of the people in this area and are of great importance to their overall health. In general, our data show the potential for some vegetables to accumulate heavy metals with concentrations of Pb greater than Cd. The concentrations of As and Cd were higher in vegetables than in rice and pulses. The concentration of Pb was generally higher in rice than in pulses and vegetables. However, some vegetables such as bottle ground leaf, ghotkol, taro, eddoe and elephant foot had much higher concentrations of Pb. Other leafy and root vegetables contained higher concentrations oJ2n and Cu. Rice grown at Samta had increased Pb and As, but, considering an average daily intake of only 260 g rice per person per day, only the Pb is at concentrations which would be a health hazard/or human consumption.
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