Dietary human exposure to mercury in two artisanal small-scale gold mining communities of northwestern Colombia
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest anthropogenic source of mercury pollution worldwide, posing a grave threat to human health. The present study identifies current levels of mercury in the human population from mining areas of the Chocó Department, Colombia
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Institución: | Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó Diego Luis Córdoba |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Institucional UTCH |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorioinstitucionalutch.info:20.500.12912/43 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://repositorioinstitucionalutch.info:8080/jspui/handle/20.500.12912/43 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2017.06.011 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Methylmercury Chocó department Fish consumption Gold mining |
| Sumario: | Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest anthropogenic source of mercury pollution worldwide, posing a grave threat to human health. The present study identifies current levels of mercury in the human population from mining areas of the Chocó Department, Colombia |
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