A contribution to the establishment of reference values for total mercury levels in hair and fish in Amazonia

Environmental Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 6-11

  Santos, E C O ^a   Camara V M ^b   Jesus, I M ^a   Brabo, E S ^a   Loureiro, E C B ^a   Mascarenhas, A F S ^c   Fayal, K F ^a   Sa Filho G C ^a   Sagica, F E S ^a   Lima, M O ^b   Higuchi, H ^d   Silveira, I M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c 1020   (Brazil)

^d MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Background; Boundary values; Gold mining; Mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

FISH; GOLD MINE; HAIR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); REFERENCE SAMPLE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BRAZIL; DIETARY INTAKE; FISH; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL POISONING; MERCURIALISM; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCALP; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AMAZON; SOUTH AMERICA;

VILA;

EID: 0036747519     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.2002.4366     Document Type: Article

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