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Levels of Arsenic, Cadmium, and Mercury in Urine of Indigenous People Living Close to Oil Extraction Areas in the Peruvian Amazon
- Source :
- Environmental Health Perspectives. May, 2023, Vol. 131 Issue 5, 57701
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Introduction Oil extraction can lead to long-term harm to the environment and human communities. (1) In the 1970's, oil extraction started in the northern Peruvian Amazon, in the Corrientes, Pastaza, [...]
- Subjects :
- Amazon River region -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects
Cadmium -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects
Indigenous peoples -- Health aspects
Arsenic -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects
Oil fields -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects
Mercury -- Environmental aspects -- Health aspects
Environmental issues
Health
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00916765
- Volume :
- 131
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.752670600
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11932