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Threats by heavy metals: human and environmental contamination in Brazil
1Center for Studies of Worker's Health and Human Ecology (CESTEH/ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
An overview of some aspects of the current situation in Brazil, as regards environmental and human contamination by chemicals is presented. Special attention is given to those problems caused by heavy metals (mercury, cadmium, zinc, arsenic and chromium) used in industrial activities and in goldmining. Social and economical influences are also briefly discussed.