Mercury Contamination in Fish and Public Health Aspects: A review

Pakistan Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 276-281

  Khaniki, Gholam Reza Jahed ^a   Alli, Inteaz ^b   Nowroozi, Ebrahim ^b   Nabizadeh, Ramin ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic environments; Fish; Mercury; Public health concerns; Seafood products

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751237589     PISSN: 16805194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjn.2005.276.281     Document Type: Article

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