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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Effects of Speciation, Cooking and Changes in Bioaccessibility on Methylmercury Exposure Assessment for Contrasting Diets of Fish and Marine Mammals.

Tania Charette, Gregory Kaminski, Maikel Rosabal, Marc Amyot

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tania CharetteGroupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Limnologie (GRIL), Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Complexe des Sciences, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8375-067X
Gregory KaminskiHealth Canada, 269 Laurier West, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9, Canada.
Maikel RosabalGroupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Limnologie (GRIL), Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), 141 Avenue du Président-Kennedy, Montreal, QC H2X 1Y4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5420-3490
Marc AmyotGroupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Limnologie (GRIL), Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Complexe des Sciences, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0340-3249
Université du Québec à Montréal · CAHealth Canada · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uptake of the neurotoxicant monomethylmercury (MeHg) from fish and marine mammals continues to present a public health concern in Canada and elsewhere. However, fish and marine mammals are key diet items contributing to food security for some Indigenous populations in Canada. Mercury (Hg) exposure is estimated assuming that 100% of Hg is methylated, that 100% will be absorbed by the consumer and that cooking does not affect MeHg concentrations. Some of these assumptions do not correspond to our current state of knowledge. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of additional variables on Hg exposure equation using probabilistic risk analysis. New variables tested were (1) the proportion of methylated Hg compared to total Hg (pMeHg, %), (2) the relative absorption factor (RAF, %) expressed as bioaccessibility and (3) the mass loss factor (MLF, unitless) that represents the loss of moisture during cooking, known to increase MeHg concentration in fish and mammals. For the new variables, data from literature were used in order to set point estimate values that were further used in the probabilistic risk analysis. Modelling results for both fish and marine mammals indicate that adding these new variables significantly influenced estimates of MeHg exposure (Mood's median test,

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MercuryMethylmercury CompoundsWater Pollutants, ChemicalAnimalsCanadaCookingDietFishesMercuryMethylmercury CompoundsWater Pollutants, Chemicalexposurefishmammalmethylmercuryprobabilistic

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PMID33806562
PMCPMC7967378
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