Arsenic exposure assessment of children living in a lead mining area in Southeastern Brazil Avaliação da exposição de crianças ao arsênio em área de mineração de chumbo na Região Sudeste do Brasil

• Main Authors: Alice Momoyo Sakuma (Author), Eduardo Mello De Capitani (Author), Bernardino Ribeiro Figueiredo (Author), Franca Durante de Maio (Author), Monica Maria Bastos Paoliello (Author), Fernanda Gonçalves da Cunha (Author), Maria Cristina Duran (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2010-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Environmental contamination by arsenic compounds in the Ribeira River Valley, São Paulo, Brazil has already been observed. Lead mining and refining activities had been carried on since late colonial times and finished recently, at the end of 1995. The source of As in the region is known to be mainl...