High Hair and Urinary Mercury Levels of Fish Eaters in the Nonpolluted Environment of Papua New Guinea

Abe, Taku; Ohtsuka, Ryutaro; Hongo, Tetsuro; Suzuki, Tsuguyoshi; Tohyama, Chiharu; Nakano, Atsuhiro; Akagi, Hirokatsu; Akimichi, Tomoya

doi:10.1080/00039896.1995.9935969

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High Hair and Urinary Mercury Levels of Fish Eaters in the Nonpolluted Environment of Papua New Guinea

Published in Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal • Oct 1, 1995

Authors:

Taku Abe

Ryutaro Ohtsuka

Tetsuro Hongo

Abstract

Hair and mercury concentrations of 134 fish-eating subjects in the Lake Murray area and 13 non-fish-eating subjects in the upper-Strickland area, Papua New Guinea, were studied. Hair mercury levels among the subjects in the Lake Murray area (mean = 21.9 micrograms/g, range = 3.7-71.9 micrograms/g) a...

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New guinea

Mercury (programming language)

Fish <Actinopterygii>

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