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Implications of inorganic/organic interconversion on fluxes of arsenic in marine food webs.

An organic form of arsenic is commonly encountered in marine organisms; in greysole and shrimp, it accounted for all arsenic found in muscle tissue. It has been isolated from flounder tissue by two independent procedures; it was hydrophilic, cationic, and was not decomposed to inorganic arsenic by hot nitric and sulfuric acids. NMR spectroscopy indicated all nonexchangeable protons to be equiva...

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Report spotlight on organic food

Many Daily Mail readers will have been bemused recently. On 30 July, they were confronted by a headline reading " Organic no healthier than ordinary food ". Below, Science Reporter Fiona MacRae reported that, " organic food is no more healthy than other food, watchdogs declared yesterday. The Food Standards Agency's ruling, which follows the world's largest study into the subject, will be a hug...

Arsenic Contamination in Food-chain: Transfer of Arsenic into Food Materials through Groundwater Irrigation

Arsenic contamination in groundwater in Bangladesh has become an additional concern vis-à-vis its use for irrigation purposes. Even if arsenic-safe drinking-water is assured, the question of irrigating soils with arsenic-laden groundwater will continue for years to come. Immediate attention should be given to assess the possibility of accumulating arsenic in soils through irrigation-water and i...

Arsenic speciation in food – current status on standardization of methods for specific determination of inorganic arsenic

for the presentation at the EU-RL-ISS workshop 7-8 October 2013 (Rome, Italy) Arsenic speciation in food – current status on standardization of methods for specific determination of inorganic arsenic Jens J. Sloth, senior scientist, phd National Food Institute,Technical University of Denmark Division of Food Chemistry Mørkhøj Bygade 19, DK-2860 Søborg Email: [email protected] Arsenic (As) is a u...