Arsenic

...roxarsone, a food additive that poultry producers use to fight off parasites and help young chicks grow. But it is a derivative of arsenic, which isn't necessarily the healthiest thing to eat. As the CDC warns: "Ingesting very high levels of...

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...chromated copper arsenate, or CCA, it's not a big surprise that the ground around those play sets would contain arsenic. The median arsenic concentration in the soil of the contaminated playgrounds studied was 57 parts per million, more than...

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By Janet Raloff, for Science News' Science & the Public Blog NEW ORLEANS No kid should ever play in arsenic. Especially at school. Yet many probably do, according to findings of a study presented today. Howard Mielke of Tulane...

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...Engineering had discovered that microbial digestion of carbon in the silt was releasing trapped arsenic. The high levels of arsenic in Bangladesh have been blamed on the country's geology. Arsenic is widely distributed throughout the...

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...wells," Nature quoted Harvey as saying. "The other interesting thing we found is that the rice fields are a sink of arsenic - more arsenic goes in with the irrigation water than comes out in the groundwater," he added. "When we...

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...irrigation and drinking wells," says Harvey. "The other interesting thing we found is that the rice fields are a sink of arsenic - more arsenic goes in with the irrigation water than comes out in the groundwater." Scott Fendorf, a professor...

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A Bangladeshi farmer shows the effects of arsenic poisoning Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting millions of people in Bangladesh, a new study says. According to the journal...

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ARSENIC POISONING: Millions of people in Bangladesh have been exposed to arsenic-contaminated water, which is now being blamed on artificial ponds. Relevant offers Asylum seekers shot over bribe Disagreement ends Apec forum Indian train...

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Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh, a study has found. Arsenic is a naturally occurring chemical poisonous to humans and is known to cause...

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...fields and ponds, and tested the capacity of organic carbon in both settings to free up arsenic from soil and sediments. "We saw that water with high arsenic content originates from the human-built ponds, and water with lower arsenic...

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