Identification of tetramethylarsonium in rice grains with elevated arsenic content

J Environ Monit. 2011 Jan;13(1):32-4. doi: 10.1039/c0em00460j. Epub 2010 Nov 15.

Abstract

Tetramethylarsonium has for the first time been identified in a commercially grown food product, rice, constituting up to 5.8% of the total arsenic in the rice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Arsenic / analysis*
  • Arsenicals / analysis*
  • Chromatography, Ion Exchange
  • Environmental Pollutants / analysis*
  • Oryza / chemistry*
  • Seeds / chemistry
  • Spectrophotometry, Atomic

Substances

  • Arsenicals
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • tetramethylarsonium
  • Arsenic