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Characterization of inhalation exposure to gaseous elemental mercury during artisanal gold mining and e-waste recycling through combined stationary and personal passive sampling

Published:2021 Issue:4 Volume:23 Page:569-579
ISSN:2050-7887
Container-title:Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts

Author:

Snow Melanie A.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Darko Godfred⁵⁶⁷⁸,Gyamfi Opoku⁵⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Ansah Eugene⁵⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Breivik Knut⁹¹⁰⁵¹¹¹²,Hoang Christopher¹²³⁴,Lei Ying Duan¹²³⁴,Wania Frank¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences

2. University of Toronto Scarborough

3. Toronto

4. Canada M1C 1A4

5. Department of Chemistry

6. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology

7. Kumasi

8. Ghana

9. Norwegian Institute for Air Research

10. Norway

11. University of Oslo

12. NO-0315 Oslo

Abstract

Stationary and personal passive sampling provides complementary information on the inhalation exposure to gaseous elemental mercury among Norwegian e-waste workers, and Ghanaian artisanal gold miners and community members.

Funder

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Norges Forskningsråd

University of Toronto

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Environmental Chemistry,General Medicine

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/EM/D0EM00494D

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