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Public Health and Economic Consequences of Methyl Mercury Toxicity to the Developing Brain

Methyl mercury is a developmental neurotoxicant. Exposure results principally from consumption by pregnant women of seafood contaminated by mercury from anthropogenic (70%) and natural (30%) sources. Throughout the 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made steady progress in reducin...

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Autores principales: Trasande, Leonardo, Landrigan, Philip J., Schechter, Clyde
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15866768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.7743