Browsing SPH Scholarly Articles by Author "de Oliveira Santos, E C"

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    • Methylmercury neurotoxicity in Amazonian children downstream from gold mining 

      Grandjean, Philippe; White, Robert Francis; Nielsen, A; Cleary, D; de Oliveira Santos, E C (Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999)
      In widespread informal gold mining in the Amazon Basin, mercury is used to capture the gold particles as amalgam. Releases of mercury to the environment have resulted in the contamination of freshwater fish with methylmercury. ...