Output details

Burdens of mercury in residents of Temirtau, Kazakhstan I: Hair mercury concentrations and factors of elevated hair mercury levels

Significance of output:

Sites with high mercury pollution are difficult and expensive to decontaminate. This paper demonstrates a risk-based approach is effective in identifying the population at unacceptable risk from excessive mercury intake. The Kazakhstan Government has adopted this approach for cost effective management of the extremely high levels of mercury pollution over large areas that has arisen at two sites. An abandoned Chlor-alkali plant at Pavlodar and a World Bank funded clean-up of the River Nura and Aldehyde plant at Temirtau. (For many documents relating to clean-up of these sites see, ‘mercury Kazakhstan’ on any web search engine.)