[CedarDave]

I presume that others had access to the Harvard arsenic study report before it was finalized. That type of information may be useful in Albuquerque's lawsuit. Do you know if the on-line draft is still available anywhere, or has it been yanked because, as you said, the study results did not agree with the study premise?

If you find it, I'll try to pass the information onto the City of Albquerque folks for use in their lawsuit.

[Eva]

Arsenic was a bit of a political football in my county, and I was discussing it on FreeRepublic, when another poster, a geologist, mentioned that arsenic was a naturally occurring substance in areas of former volcanic eruptions. I asked him what other substances might be found in those areas and he mentioned selenium. So, I did a search on selenium and came up with the Harvard Arsenic Study.

The study included alot of information about the interaction of selenium and arsenic and the fact that one flushes the other from the system. Selenium is a natural anti-carcinogen, so if selenium levels are low, and arsenic is flushing it from the system, a person may become more susceptible to cancer.

The completed study is all that is currently on line. I couldn't believe it when I went back to re-read the information and it was gone. I believe that the main study that showed the arsenic/selenium relationship was done in Indonesia. If someone seriously is interested in the study, though, I would go to the source, the guy who wrote the arsenic project is now in charge of the gov't arsenic program. I would say that I was doing research on selenium and would he share the information that he collected or at least the source of the information.