ES&T’s 2005 environmental technology paper of the year introduces an inexpensive and easy way to test for the toxic metal.
“Bacterial Bioassay for Rapid and Accurate Analysis of Arsenic in Highly Variable Groundwater Samples” by Pham Thi Kim Trang, Hanoi University of Science (Vietnam); Michael Berg, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag); Pham Hung Viet and Nguyen Van Mui, Hanoi University of Science (Vietnam); and Jan Roelof van der Meer, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), 2005, 39 (19), 7625–7630.