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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on June 12, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(12):906-907; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm012
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Inorganic Arsenic in Drinking Water: An Evolving Public Health Concern

Jay H. Lubin, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Kenneth P. Cantor

Affiliations of authors: Biostatistics Branch (JHL) and Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (LEBF, KPC), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD

Correspondence to: Jay H. Lubin, PhD, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS/8042, Rockville, MD 20892-7244 (e-mail: lubinj@mail.nih.gov).

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In recent years, ingestion of inorganic arsenic from drinking water has emerged as an important scientific issue and public health concern. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has identified sufficient evidence in humans that inorganic arsenic causes lung, bladder, and nonmelanoma skin cancers (1) (summary at http://monographs.iarc.fr/). Reports by expert committees have suggested associations with several other cancer and noncancer outcomes (2–4). As a result, the US Environmental Protection Agency lowered the maximum contaminant level for arsenic in drinking water supplied by community water systems from 50 µg/L, a level set in 1942, to 10 µg/L, effective from January 2006. The reduction will necessitate changes to water systems serving approximately 13 million . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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