Mercury contamination in fish from gold mining areas in Indonesia and human health risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 320-325

  Castilhos, Zuleica C ^a   Rodrigues Filho, Saulo ^a   Rodrigues, Ana Paula C ^a,b   Villas Bôas, Roberto C ^a   Siegel, Shefa ^c   Veiga, Marcello M ^d   Beinhoff, Christian ^d  

^a CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIA MINERAL   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fish; Gold mining; Human health risk assessment; Indonesia; Mercury

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HEALTH RISKS; MERCURY (METAL); OPEN PIT MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FISH; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; INDONESIA; RISK ASSESSMENT INDICATOR;

GOLD MINES;

FRESH WATER; MERCURY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD WEB; GOLD MINE; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HAIR LEVEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MINING; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GOLD; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MERCURY; MINING; MUSCLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; CENTRAL KALIMANTAN; EURASIA; GALANGAN; INDONESIA; NORTH SULAWESI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TATELU;

EID: 33746628994     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.01.039     Document Type: Article

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