El mercurio: contaminante marino y alimentario

  1. Soraya Paz 1
  2. Antonio Burgos
  3. Ángel Gutiérrez 1
  4. Cintia Hernández 1
  5. Gonzalo Lozano
  6. Carmen Rubio 1
  7. Arturo Hardisson 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Journal:
Ars Clínica Académica

ISSN: 2340-7522

Year of publication: 2017

Volume: 3

Pages: 5 - 11

Type: Article

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Abstract

Mercury is a toxic metal characterized by the tendency tobioaccumulation and biomagnification on the trophic chain.The human activities like mining, chlor-alkali plants, paperand electric industries are the main responsible to theincrease on the mercury levels in environment. It beingmore interesting, the mercury in fishes in particular, theblue-fishes, and the intake of them by human, whom is themost exposing to the highest mercury concentrations.