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Communication
J. Environ. Monit., 2007, 9, 1067 - 1070, DOI: 10.1039/b709339j
Additional danger of arsenic exposure through inhalation from burning of cow dung cakes laced with arsenic as a fuel in arsenic affected villages in Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra plain
Arup Pal, Bishwajit Nayak, Bhaskar Das, M. Amir Hossain, Sad Ahamed and Dipankar Chakraborti
In arsenic contaminated areas of the Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area 569
749 sq. km; population over 500 million) where traditionally cow dung cake is used as a fuel in unventilated ovens for cooking purposes, people are simply exposed to 1859.2 ng arsenic per day through direct inhalation, of which 464.8 ng could be absorbed in respiratory tract.
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