Pages 359-363 in G. Pétursdóttir et al., eds. Circumpolar Health 93. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 20-25, 1993. Arctic Medical Research. 1994;53(Suppl.2)
Pages 359-363 in G. Pétursdóttir et al., eds. Circumpolar Health 93. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 20-25, 1993. Arctic Medical Research. 1994;53(Suppl.2)
For cultural and economic reasons, Inuit people rely heavily on country foods for their subsistence. Knowing the contamination levels for organochlorines and heavy metals reported in the edible tissues of sea mammals and their estimated daily intake, relatively high body burdens are predicted. In Arctic Canada, human concentrations have been reported for heavy metals (lead, cadmium and mercury) and organochlorines (PCBs, dioxins, chlorinated pesticides, etc.). A decrease in mercury exposure over the last decade is observed, although no temporal trend could be observed for organochlorines, because results on the latter are only available since 1985-1986.