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Assessment of Exposure to Arsenic through Household Water—New—National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). Arsenic is a naturally occurring element present in food and water as both inorganic and organic complexes. Epidemiologic evidence shows a strong link between ingestion of water containing inorganic arsenic and an increase in a wide variety of cancers (
We propose to conduct a study to methodically test the validity of the commonly-made assumption that secondary exposures such as bathing will not result in a significant increase in arsenic intake over background dietary levels. Specifically, we are interested in assessing urine arsenic levels among individuals where ingestion of arsenic-containing water is controlled by either POU treatment or use of bottled water, combined with use of short-term diaries to record diet, water consumption, and bathing frequency. Total annual burden is 510.