Human exposure to soil contaminants in subarctic Ontario, Canada

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Ellen Stephanie Reyes, Eric Nicholas Liberda, Leonard James S. Tsuji
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015
• Subjects: DDT; soil; soil ingestion; risk assessment; Aboriginal health; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Canada; Fort Albany; Circumpolar Health; Human health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; Subarctic; James Bay
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v74.27357; https://doaj.org/article/d4fda46ed4354380ab4f4758f3779f0d

Background: Chemical contaminants in the Canadian subarctic present a health risk with exposures primarily occurring via the food consumption. Objective: Characterization of soil contaminants is needed in northern Canada due to increased gardening and agricultural food security initiatives and the p...