Table 3.
Bootstrap estimates of inorganic arsenic intake dose distributions from diet and drinking water.
Exposure group, µg/L in water | Daily inorganic arsenic intake dose from dietary sources, µg/daya |
Waterd(µg/kg-day) | All sources (µg/kg-day) | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rice | Vege-tables | Tubers | Pulsesb | Fish | Meatc | All Diet | |||
< 10 | 0.38 (0.38) | 0.21 (0.49) | 0.01 (0.03) | 0.06 (0.01) | 0.06 (0.01) | 0.03 (0.01) | 0.7 (0.6) | 0.09 (0.2) | 0.85 (0.8–0.9) |
10 > 49.9 | 1.3 (0.8) | 2.0 (1.9–2.1) | |||||||
50–99.9 | 3.2 (1.6) | 4.1 (4.0–4.2) | |||||||
100–99.9 | 8.3 (4.6) | 8.9 (8.6–9.2) | |||||||
300+ | 37.0 (37.3) | 38.8 (35.9–42.0) |
Standard deviations in parentheses
lentils
beef and pork
direct ingestion and cooking water (1 gm/gm vegetables, 2 gm/gm rice consumption).