Human exposure to mercury due to small scale gold mining in northern Tanzania

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 259, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 45-53

  Van Straaten, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fish; Gold mining; Hair; Lake Victoria; Mercury; Occupational risks; Tanzania; Urine

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; GOLD; LAKE WATER; MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; GOLD MINE; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FISHERMAN; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MINING; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GOLD; HAIR; HUMANS; MERCURY; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PROTOPTERUS AETHIOPICUS; TILAPIA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0034597253     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00548-9     Document Type: Article

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