Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Human Health Issues Fourth International Conference, August 4-8 1996,Hamburg, Germany
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART 1 FISH CONSUMPTION AND METHYLMERCURY EXPOSURE IN THE AMAZON A. C. BARBOSA, A. M. GARCIA, J. R. DESOUZAI Mercurycontamination inhairofriverine 1-8 populations of Apiacas Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon E. D. BIDONE, Z. C. CASTILHOS, T. J. S. SANTOS, T. M. C. SOUZA and L. D. LACE...
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Springer Netherlands
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Fish Consumption and Methylmercury Exposure in The Amazon
- Mercury contamination in hair of riverine populations of Apiacás Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon
- Fish contamination and human exposure to mercury in Tartarugalzinho River, Amapa State, Northern Amazon, Brazil. A screening approach
- Methylmercury in hair samples from different riverine groups, Amazon, Brazil
- Fish diet and mercury exposure in a riparian Amazonian population
- Follow-up of mercury levels in fish, human hair and urine in the Madeira and Tapajós basins, Amazon, Brazil
- 2 Child Development and Long Term Exposure
- The Seychelles child development study: Results and new directions through twenty-nine months
- Exposure patterns and long term sequelae on adults and children in two Canadian indigenous communities exposed to methylmercury
- 3 Policy and Program Considerations
- Mercury in northern Québec: Role of the Mercury Agreement and status of research and monitoring
- Social and cultural impacts of mercury pollution on aboriginal peoples in Canada
- 4 Modelling, Risk Assessment and Exposure Estimates
- Risk assessment of mercury in Atta Floresta, Amazon basin — Brazil
- Estimating risks from exposure to methylmercury: Application to first nations people in Canada
- Estimating exposure to methylmercury: Effects of uncertainties
- Mercury contamination through fish consumption: A model for predicting and preventing hazardous behaviour on a community level
- Probabilistic assessment of regional mercury exposure
- 5 Occupational Exposure
- The health safety programme for workers exposed to elemental mercury at the mercury mine in Idrija
- Exposure to metallic mercury in workers in a tropical chloralkali plant evaluated through urine analysis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Mercury values in urinefrom inhabitants of St. Petersburg