Arsenic

Silent killer arsenic slowly poisoning crores of people in West Bengal as successive govts fail to address issue

West Bengal accounts for 1.04 crore out of India’s 1.48 crore population harmed by arsenic.

High levels of arsenic in seafood are worrisome; studies show even harmless forms of chemical may be toxic

Seafood and seafood products contain high levels of arsenic compounds. The chemical element is mainly found as arsenobetaine. DMAsV or MMAsV can be found in various types of fin-fish, crabs, and molluscs. Arsenocholine, which is mainly found in shrimp, is chemically similar to arsenobetaine.

Arsenic kills silently as you relish your chicken and mutton dishes; high time to pick safe food

Acute arsenic poisoning can lead to vomiting, abdominal pain, watery diarrhoea containing blood, cardiac problems, destruction of red blood cells, vertigo, delirium, shock, coma and death.

Bangladesh: 20 million poor drink water contaminated with arsenic; over 40,000 killed every year

Twenty million poor in Bangladesh are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

From corroding Delhi metro to causing cancer: Holy Yamuna now a poison filled hazard

Given the corrosive damage that is being caused to ACs, it's no great leap of logic to assume that the health of people living on the banks of the Yamuna is also under threat.

Arsenic-affected village now selling packaged drinking water

Once forced to drink arsenic-contaminated ground water, residents of a remote hamlet in West Bengal near Indo-Bangla border are now purifying water from ponds and selling packaged safe drinking water.

Arsenic in drinking water damages lungs

Pregnant women who drink water with traces of arsenic may give birth to babies who have increased odds of respiratory infections, says a new study.