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18318492

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-4-2
pubmed:abstractText
Mercury is a global pollutant that can transform into methylmercury, a highly toxic and bioaccumulative organic form. Previous surveys have shown that fish is the main source of human methylmercury exposure, whereas most other food products have an average value below 20 microg/kg and primarily in the inorganic form. This paper reports that methylmercury in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown at abandoned mercury mining areas contained levels >100 microg/kg in its edible portion and proved to be 10-100 times higher than other crop plants. The daily adult intake of methylmercury through rice consumption causes abnormally high methylmercury exposure to humans. The results demonstrate that rice is a methylmercury bioaccumulative plant and the main methylmercury source for human exposure in the areas studied.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-8561
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2465-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Methylmercury accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown at abandoned mercury mines in Guizhou, China.
pubmed:affiliation
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, People's Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article