کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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2589189 | 1561930 | 2008 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Mercury in breast milk - A health hazard for infants in gold mining areas?
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری
علوم محیط زیست
بهداشت، سم شناسی و جهش زایی
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چکیده انگلیسی
Breast-feeding can be a source of mercury exposure for infants. The main concern up to now is methyl-mercury exposure of women at child-bearing age. Certain fish species have high levels of methyl-mercury leading to consumer's advisory guidelines in regard of fish consumption to protect infants from mercury exposure passing through breast milk. Little is known about the transfer of inorganic mercury passing through breast milk to infants. Epidemiological studies showed negative health effects of inorganic mercury in gold mining areas. Small-scale gold miners use mercury to extract the gold from the ore. Environmental and health assessments of gold mining areas in Indonesia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe showed a high exposure with inorganic mercury in these gold mining areas, and a negative health impact of the exposure to the miners and the communities. This paper reports about the analysis and the results of 46 breast milk samples collected from mercury-exposed mothers. The median level of 1.87 μg/l is fairly high compared to other results from literature. Some breast milk samples showed very high levels of mercury (up to 149 μg/l). Fourteen of the 46 breast milk samples exceed 4 μg/l which is considered to be a “high” level. US EPA recommends a “Reference Dose” of 0.3 μg inorganic mercury/kg body weight/day [United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1997. Volume V: Health Effects of Mercury and Mercury Compounds. Study Report EPA-452/R-97-007: US EPA]. Twenty-two of the 46 children from these gold mining areas had a higher calculated total mercury uptake. The highest calculated daily mercury uptake of 127 μg exceeds by far the recommended maximum uptake of inorganic mercury. Further systematic research of mercury in breast milk from small-scale gold mining areas is needed to increase the knowledge about the bio-transfer of mercury from mercury vapour-exposed mothers passing through breast milk to the breast-fed infant.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health - Volume 211, Issues 5â6, 1 October 2008, Pages 615-623
Journal: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health - Volume 211, Issues 5â6, 1 October 2008, Pages 615-623
نویسندگان
Stephan Bose-O'Reilly, Beate Lettmeier, Gabriele Roider, Uwe Siebert, Gustav Drasch,