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doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116681. Online ahead of print. Collaborators, Affiliations Collaborators TackSHS Project Investigators: Affiliations 1 Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Pl. Lesseps, 1, 08023, Barcelona, Spain; Centre for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Av. Monforte de Lemos, 3-5, Pabellón 11, Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain; Sant Pau Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB Sant Pau), Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167, 08025, Barcelona, Spain.

Scientists long ago linked high levels of arsenic in groundwater to cancer and other environmental illnesses, particularly in Taiwan, Bangladesh, and South America, where the contamination can often reach extraordinarily high levels of 1,000 ppb or more. Now concerns are shifting to the health effects of much lower doses such as those that many Americans live with every day. Naturally occurring crystals of inorganic arsenic crystals, magnification unknown.