Qureshi, Asif and IIT, Hyderabad
(2019)
IIT Hyderabad Researchers analyze mercury present in hair of Indians.
India Today, New Delhi.
Abstract
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Researchers have found that people living in a city with
active coal-fired power plants and consuming local aquatic produce may have higher body levels
of mercury. They arrived at this finding after analyzing the amounts of mercury in the hair of over
600 people in three cities in India. Their study has recently been reported in the Journal of Exposure
Science and Environmental Epidemiology, a peer-reviewed a Public Health journal. Mercury is a
neurotoxin that is distributed in the environment and present in many products encountered in daily
life. It is used in industry and consumer products, exists as a natural impurity in ores, is nondegradable,
and widely circulates within and between ecosystems.
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