2-STAGE EVALUATION OF EXPOSURE TO MERCURY AND BIOMARKERS OF NEUROTOXICITY AT A HAZARDOUS-WASTE SITE

Authors
REIF JS TSONGAS TA ANGER WK MITCHELL J METZGER L KEEFE TJ TESSARI JD AMLER R
Citation
Js. Reif et al., 2-STAGE EVALUATION OF EXPOSURE TO MERCURY AND BIOMARKERS OF NEUROTOXICITY AT A HAZARDOUS-WASTE SITE, Journal of toxicology and environmental health, 40(2-3), 1993, pp. 413-422
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Toxicology,"Environmental Sciences","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Journal of toxicology and environmental health → ACNP
ISSN journal
00984108
Volume
40
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
413 - 422
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-4108(1993)40:2-3<413:2EOETM>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Communities surrounding the Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA), a Superfund site in Colorado, were studied in order to determine whether exposures to mercury were greater among persons who resided there than among re sidents of a comparison area 12-15 miles distant. From a census-based stratified random sample, 469 persons were interviewed and urine sampl es were obtained for biomonitoring. Mercury was detected in urine from 32 (6.8%) of the 469 persons sample at a detection limit of 5 ppb. Tr ace levels of mercury (detectable, but nonquantifiable) were found in 80 (17.1%) of the persons sampled. Neither