High hair and urinary mercury levels of fish eaters in the nonpolluted environment of Papua New Guinea. From: Archives of Environmental Health | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: Abe, Taku; Akagi, Hirokatsu; Akimichi, Tomoya; Hongo, Tetsuro; Nakano, Atsuhiro; Ohtsuka, Ryutaro; Suzuki, Tsuguyoshi; Tohyama, Chiharu | COPYRIGHT 1995 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Hair and mercury concentrations of 134 fish-eating subjects in the Lake Murray area and 13 non-fish-eating subjects in the upper-Strickland area, Papua New Guinea, were studied. Hair mercury levels among the subjects in the Lake Murray area (mean = 21.9 [mu]g/g, range = 3.7-71.9 [mu]g/g) and urinary mercury levels (mean = 7.6 [mu]g/g creatinine, range = 1.4-25.6 [mu]g/g creatinine) were markedly higher than levels found in subjects from the upper-strickland area (mean hair mercury = 0.75 [mu]...