Arsenic levels in the groundwater of Korea and the urinary excretion among contaminated area

Drinking water is a main source of human exposure to arsenic. Hence, the determination of arsenic in groundwater is essential to assess its impact on public health. Here, we report arsenic levels in the groundwater of 722 sites covering all six major provinces of Korea. Water was sampled in two occa...

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Published in:Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology 2016-09, Vol.26 (5), p.458-463
Main Authors: Park, Jung-Duck, Choi, Seong-Jin, Choi, Byung-Sun, Lee, Choong-Ryeol, Kim, Heon, Kim, Yong-Dae, Park, Kyung-Soo, Lee, Young-Jo, Kang, Seojin, Lim, Kyung-Min, Chung, Jin-Ho
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
692/700/139/1420/1919
704/172/169
Arsenic
Arsenic - urine
Contamination
Creatinine
Drinking water
Drinking Water - analysis
Drinking Water - chemistry
Environmental aspects
Environmental Exposure - analysis
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Epidemiology
Excretion
Geography
Groundwater
Groundwater pollution
Health aspects
Humans
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Maps as Topic
Mass Spectrometry
Mass spectroscopy
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
original-article
Public health
Republic of Korea
Seasonal variations
Seasons
Smoking
Statistical analysis
Water Pollutants, Chemical - urine
Water, Underground
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Summary:Drinking water is a main source of human exposure to arsenic. Hence, the determination of arsenic in groundwater is essential to assess its impact on public health. Here, we report arsenic levels in the groundwater of 722 sites covering all six major provinces of Korea. Water was sampled in two occasions (summer, 722 sites and winter, 636 sites) and the arsenic levels were measured with highly sensitive inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry method (limit of detection, 0.1  μ g/l) to encompass the current drinking water standard (
ISSN:1559-0631
1559-064X
DOI:10.1038/jes.2016.16