Mercury exposure in the population from Wuchuan mercury mining area, Guizhou, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 395, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 72-79

  Li, Ping ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Qiu, Guangle ^a   Shang, Lihai ^a   Wang, Shaofeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hair; Mercury exposure; Rice; Risk assessment; TGM

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CROPS; HEALTH RISKS; MERCURY MINES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

HUMAN EXPOSURE; HUMAN HAIR; MERCURY EXPOSURE;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

HAIR; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INHALATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMELTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; ORYZA SATIVA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; WUCHUAN;

EID: 41549128785     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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