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Mercury exposure Aasessment in fish and humans from Sundarban Mangrove Wetland of India

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Title Mercury exposure Aasessment in fish and humans from Sundarban Mangrove Wetland of India
 
Creator Chatterjee, M.
Basu, N.
Sarkar, S. K.
 
Subject Exposure assessment
Methylmercury
Fish consumption
Biomarkers
Sundarban
 
Description 1101-1107
Present study had documented total mercury levels in
six commonly consumed fish species, and performed a

cross-sectional study on local residents to gauge their
intake of fish (via dietary survey) and mercury exposure (via hair biomarker
analyses). Mean total mercury content in edible composites of locally-caught
fishes (topse, hilsa, mackerel, topse, sardinella, khoira) was low and ranged
from 0.01 to 0.11 μg g-1 mercury, dry
weight. In a cross-sectional study of 58 area residents, the mercury content in
hair ranged from 0.25 to 1.23 μg g-1, with a mean of 0.65 ± 0.23 μg g-1. Hair
mercury level was not influenced by gender, age, or occupation. Mean number of
meals consumed per week was 3.1 ± 1.1, and all participants consumed at least
one fish meal per week. When related to fish consumption, a significant
positive association was found between number of fish meals consumed per week
and hair mercury levels.
 
Date 2016-06-23T16:30:47Z
2016-06-23T16:30:47Z
2014-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/28980
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(6) [June 2014]