For Indian manufacturers, membership in the Ayurveda Drug Manufacturers' Association (ADMA), committed to “standards and quality amongst its members,”13 was similarly noted. We asked US manufacturers anonymously by telephone where the herbs used for their products were grown. We presumed that ...
Topsoil arsenic (As) contamination threatens the ecological environment and human health. However, traditional methods for As identification rely on on-site sampling and chemical analysis, which are cumbersome, time-consuming, and costly. Here we develop
Although arsenic research is rapidly progressing over the last decades (>1000 publications per year with arsenic in their title; Carlin et al., 2016), we do not know if the wider public is aware of its risks. Specifically, some of the misconceptions may still exist in rural communities. For...
Arsenic and its compounds are used as an alloy additive,in electronic devices; in veterinary medicines; in agricultureas insecticides, herbicides, larvicides, andpesticides. Some arsenic compounds are used in pigmentproduction; the manufacture of glass as a bronzing ordecolorizing agent; the ...
“Redox Stability of Inorganic Arsenic(III) and Arsenic(V) in Aqueous-Solution.” Analytical Chemistry 52(1): 197-199, the entire text of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety). Under the redox conditions of natural water systems, arsenic is commonly found in both oxidized and ...
Arsenic is also a carcinogen, yet arsenic trioxide is used as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of acute promyelotic leukemia (APL). The therapeutic use of arsenic is limited due to its severe cardiovascular side effects. Many of the toxic effects of arsenic are mediated by mitochondrial ...
Arsenic is unlike many other inorganic contaminants in that processes of environmental biogeochemical cycling in the range of pH and Eh common to the shallow subsurface can alter its speciation, which in turn affect its solid–aqueous phase partitioning [68,69]. That elevated levels of arsenic in...
The novelty of this work is a Fe3O4-monolithic resorcinol-formaldehyde carbon xerogel that, due to its chemical composition and ordered porous structure, is capable of removing arsenite and arsenate ions present in groundwater. Moreover, due to its magnetic properties, it is possible to easily ...
Due to the rapid growth of the economy, the environmental issues and energy crisis have become increasingly more prominent [1,2,3,4]. Heavy metal ions are listed as top environmental health hazards due to their high toxicity. Both geological and man-made processes are the sources of these he...
From a toxicological point of view, epidemiological studies suggest that chronic low-dose exposure to inorganic arsenic in humans is significantly associated with an increased risk of lung, skin, and bladder cancer, central nervous system neuropathies, and immunotoxicity [1,2]. Arsenic and its ...