The Minamata Convention on Mercury: Risk in perspective

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9913, 2014, Pages 198-199

  Larson, Heidi J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; THIOMERSAL;

CHEMICAL WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; MERCURIALISM; MINAMATA DISEASE; MINING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84892580872     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62000-0     Document Type: Note

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