摘要:Secondary sources of intoxication with methylmercury poisoning other than home-made bread were explored. Mercury levels in various food items were below 0.05 mg/kg. Over 30 000 specimens of meat and internal organs of sheep were analysed because of the strong suspicion that the animals had been fed treated barley. It was found that 6-12% of the specimens analysed contained more than 0.5 mg/kg of mercury. Consumption of meat did not appear to constitute a danger of intoxication during the outbreak. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (345K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 129 130 131 132