Results for the health effects of Mercury and Taiji-cho Residents
National Institute for Minamata Disease
(Background)
An investigation into the Methyl Mercury concentration levels in hair samples was performed at the request of Taiji-cho, Higashimuro-Gun, Wakayama.
(Subject of Investigation and Method)

Inquiry to the consumption of methyl mercury

Of the Taiji residents (population [...]

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Excessive ingestion of mercury—a health hazard associated with consuming predatory fishes—damages neurological, sensory-motor and cardiovascular functioning. The mercury levels found in Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) and bluefin tuna species (Thunnus [...]

A 2009 Research Review by Dr. Sandra Altherr of ProWildlife and Sigrid Lüber of OceanCare

The Chief Medical Officer and Chief Physician of Denmark’s Faroe Islands officially request a total ban on the human consumption of pilot whales due to their mercury and PCB toxicity.

有害政策
汚染されたクジラ・イルカ由来食品の販売を禁止しない日本
www.eia-international.org 2008
要旨
この１０年の間に、日本で販売されている鯨類(クジラ、イルカ)由来食品の有毒化学物質の汚染濃度に関しては、専門家による独立評価が数多く行なわれてきた。専門家仲間による査読を受けた複数の科学論文によって、イルカ肉が政府の暫定的規制値の数百倍という濃度の水銀に汚染されていることが明らかにされている。
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2007 Marine Pollution Bulletin report on mercury contaminated cetacean meat in South Korea

The Environmental Investigation Agency’s comprehensive research report on mercury toxic cetacean meat being harvested, processed and sold today in Japan.

Total Mercury, Methyl Mercury, and Selenium Levels in the Red Meat of  Small Cetaceans Sold for Human Consumption in Japan
Tetsuya Endo, Koichi Haraguchi, Yohei Hotta, Yohsuke Hisamichi, Shane Lavery, Merell Dalebout and C. Scott Baker
Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39, 5703-5708
Introduction
We surveyed the total mercury (T-Hg) and methyl mercury (M-Hg) levels in red meat products (n [...]

Neurotoxicology and Teratology research report on the persisting effects of methylmercury poisoning among Minamata residents who ate contaminated seafood.

Distribution and toxicity of mercury in rats after oral administration of mercury-contaminated whale red meat marketed for human consumption
T. Endo, Y. Hotta, K. Haraguchi, M. Sakata
Published in Chemosphere 2005
Abstract
Toothed-whales and dolphins have been hunted for human consumption in Japan, and their muscles (red meats) are highly contaminated with mercury (Hg). We investigated the distribution and [...]