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Original Articles

Contribution of water and cooked rice to an estimation of the dietary intake of inorganic arsenic in a rural village of West Bengal, India

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Pages 41-50 | Received 05 Dec 2006, Accepted 05 Apr 2007, Published online: 29 Nov 2007

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