Mercury Contamination and Hotspots

IPEN members conducted research to document mercury contaminated sites in their countries and also have conducted testing for mercury in local seafood and in human hair, demonstrating the food chain impacts from mercury contamination.

Also, see the global report on Mercury Hotspots and see a map of global fish and community mercury monitoring.

File Size
PDF icon Albania (2013, Albanian) 50 KB
PDF icon Albania (2013, English) 192 KB
PDF icon Cameroon (2013) 94 KB
PDF icon Czechia (2013, Czech) 561 KB
PDF icon Czechia (2013, English) 533 KB
PDF icon Indonesia (2013, English) 3 MB
PDF icon Indonesia (2013, Indonesian) 3 MB
PDF icon Japan and Cook Islands (2013) 182 KB
PDF icon Mexico (2013, Spanish) 949 KB
PDF icon Mexico (2013, English) 3 MB
PDF icon Russia-Nizegorodsky District (2015) 253 KB
PDF icon Russia-Volga River (2015, Russian) 571 KB
PDF icon Russia-Krasnodar Region (2015) 9 MB
PDF icon Russia (2013, Russian) 899 KB
PDF icon Russia (2013, English) 221 KB
PDF icon Tanzania (2013) 1 MB
PDF icon Thailand (2013, Thai) 889 KB
PDF icon Thailand (2013, English) 918 KB
PDF icon Uruguay (2015) 4 MB
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IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network)
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