A human-health risk assessment of dietary methylmercury exposure in Fort Albany First Nation

• Main Author: Fatima Ahmed (10511899)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Uncategorized content; Mercury > Toxicology; Fish > Mercury content; Fish as food > Contamination; Mercury > Environmental aspects; Indigenous peoples > Ontario > Fort Albany > Social conditions; Fish as food > Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Fort Albany; Albany River; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14639886.v1

In Northern First Nations communities, traditional diets are a primary pathway for essential nutrients and exposures to environmental contaminants. Due to long-range transport and industry pollution, Fort Albany First Nation is a community at risk of methylmercury exposures through fish. It’s abilit...