Acute or chronic mercury exposure can cause adverse effects during any period of
development. Mercury is a highly toxic element; there is no known safe level of exposure …

Objective To examine biomarkers of methylmercury (MeHg) intake in women and infants
from seafood-consuming populations globally and characterize the comparative risk of fetal …

Passage of environmental chemicals across the placenta has important toxicological
consequences, as well as for choosing samples for analysis and for interpreting the results …

Background Many phthalates and phenols are hormonally active and are suspected to alter
the course of development. Objective We investigated prenatal exposures to phthalate and …

Exposure to toxic mercury (Hg) is a growing health hazard throughout the world today.
Recent studies show that mercury exposure may occur in the environment, and increasingly …

This review article focused on the current status of mercury (Hg) contamination in different
ecological compartments in China, and their possible environmental and health impacts …

Prenatal life is the most sensitive stage of human development to environmental pollutants.
Early exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may increase the risk of adverse …

In the last decade advances in the analytic methods for quantification of polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) have resulted in widespread availability of congener-specific analysis …

The third Canadian Arctic Human Health Assessment conducted under the Canadian
Northern Contaminants Program (NCP), in association with the circumpolar Arctic …

The objectives of this paper are to: assess the impact of exposure to current levels of
environmental contaminants in the Canadian Arctic on human health; identify the data and …