Preface
This Forum will be held every year in order to discuss plans for future research subjects in our institute with researchers from foreign countries. Recently, global mercury pollution has been widely recognized. Two large cohort studies, in the Faroes and Seychelles, on the effects of methylmercury o...
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2006
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.460.8858 http://www.nimd.go.jp/english/kenkyu/nimd_forum/nimd_forum_2006.pdf |
| Summary: | This Forum will be held every year in order to discuss plans for future research subjects in our institute with researchers from foreign countries. Recently, global mercury pollution has been widely recognized. Two large cohort studies, in the Faroes and Seychelles, on the effects of methylmercury on fetuses, have continued since about twenty years. In Japan, similar studies were started several years ago by the study group of Tohoku University. Today we have a chance to discuss theses issues together with the study group of Faroes and Tohoku University. I have invited two the members of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Antero T. Aitio and Dr. Tim Meredith, to attend this meeting. It is very important to inform the results of recent cohort studies on the effects of low-level exposure of methylmercury on the fetuses to the members of WHO. As you know, Minamata City experienced the first instance of methylmercury poisoning caused by man-made environment pollution. A company in Minamata provided economic development but caused environmental pollution. The accident has destroyed not only the environment, but has taken its toll in human life. On May 1, 2006, we commemorate the fiftieth |
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