Determining mercury and selenium in vitro bioaccessibility in country foods collected from Nunavik, Québec

• Main Author: Palaniyandi, Sierra
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2016
• Subjects: in vitro; bioaccessibility; mercury; country foods; Inuit; Clarkson; Donaldson; Nunavik; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10990

Country food is a cornerstone of cultural, social, and spiritual life for Inuit communities (Gombay, 2005; Van Oostdam et al., 2005). Country foods refer to marine mammals, fish, plants, berries, seabirds and wild game that have been hunted and gathered from the local area (Van Oostdam et al., 2005)...