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Friday, October 7, 2022

Risk map of human intake of methylmercury through fish consumption in Latin America and the Caribbeans

 Top predator fish are found to have very high THg levels (EPA’s contamination level 0.46 µg g − 1 wet weight or 1.5 µg g − 1 dry weight) (Lasut et al. 2010; Esdaile and Chalker 2018). Latin American and the Caribbean produced 18% of global anthropogenic Hg emissions, of which small scale gold mining contributed 70% (340 t out of 2,220 t). 

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