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Objectives: To study the carcinogenicity of inorganic mercury in humans. Methods: We studied the mortality from cancer among 6784 male and 265 female workers of four mercury mines and mills in Spain, Slovenia, Italy and the Ukraine. Workers were employed between the beginning of the century and 1990; the follow-up period lasted from the 1950s to the 1990s. We compared the mortality of the workers...
The excretion of mercury, copper and zinc in urine, and mercury in whole blood andplasma, was determined in 40 chloralkali workers exposed to mercury vapour and 40age-matched referents. The Hg concentrations in whole blood, plasma and urine werehigher in the exposed group (35 nmol l, 30 nmol l,and 11.5 nmol mmol creatinine, respectively) in comparison with thereference group (15 nmol l, 6.3 nmol l,...
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