Mercury in fish: Concentration vs . fish size and estimates of mercury intake

@article{Storelli2007MercuryIF,
  title={Mercury in fish: Concentration vs . fish size and estimates of mercury intake},
  author={Maria Maddalena Storelli and Grazia Barone and Gaetano Piscitelli and Giuseppe Onofrio Marcotrigiano},
  journal={Food Additives \& Contaminants},
  year={2007},
  volume={24},
  pages={1353 - 1357}
}
Total mercury concentrations were determined in different fish size classes of commercial importance such as, conger eel (Conger conger), starry ray (Raja asterias), forkbeard (Phycis blennoides), frostfish (Lepidopus caudatus), striped mullet (Mullus barbatus), red gurnard (Aspitrigla cuculus) and yellow gurnard (Trigla lucerna) in order to evaluate variations in consumer exposure to mercury as a function of fish consumption of a spectrum of different sizes. The highest mean levels of total… 
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