The ministry’s National Drinking Water Standards set an arsenic maximum contaminant level at 0.01mg/L but a recent report by the Perak Water Board recorded an arsenic level of 0.027mg/L at the water treatment in Gerik.
“All we want to say is it’s not true and we can only take the word of the Health Ministry as the basis of our decisions. Nothing else. “People are complaining of skin problems and to open the plant and allow for the water to be consumed would be irresponsible. This decision was made to protect the people’s interests. This involves the people’s health and there shouldn’t be a compromise,” he said.
Arsenic ingestion, which can occur through long-term exposure to the substance or ingesting water that has been poisoned with arsenic, can result in skin wounds, hyperkeratosis and chronic diseases such as cancer of the skin, kidney, bladder and lung.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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