Concerns about environmental mercury toxicity: do we forget something else?

Author: Bjørklund G, Bengtsson U, Chirumbolo S, Kern JK.

Source: Environmental Research.

Year: 2017

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We have read the article by Eunhee Ha and co-authors (2016) entitled “Current progress on understanding the impact of mer-cury on human health” with great interest (http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.envres.2016.06.042). The authors addressed the significant concern of mercury (Hg) pollution and its impact on human health by conducting a critical review of the scientific literature on the topic reported since January of 2012. We are however surprised to find that one landmark paper is missing (Woods et al., 2012). The group, working at the Department of Environmental and Occu-pational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, has published several reports showing associations between Hg toxi-city and genetic polymorphism, as pointed out by Ha et al. (2016).

Citation: Bjørklund G, Bengtsson U, Chirumbolo S, Kern JK. Concerns about environmental mercury toxicity: do we forget something else?. Environmental Research. 2017; 152:514-6.