Corrigendum
IPCS Environmental Health Criteria 101: Methylmercury
Pages 54-55, Table 9:
Replace the table with the following:
Table 9. Concentrations of mercury in indicator media in non-exposed populationsa
| Country | Indicator media | No. of Subjects | Mercury concentrationb | Reference | |
| Mean | Range | ||||
| Belgium | placenta | 474 | 15 | 1.1 - 103 | Roels et al. (1978)c |
| whole blood | 497 | 13d | 0.1 - 47 d | Lauwerys et al. (1978) | |
| Italy | whole blood | 80 | 20 | 0 - 46 | Pallotti et al. (1979) |
| Japan | maternal blood | 11 | 6.6 | 2.0 - 16.4 | Suzuki et al. (1984b) |
| umbilical blood | 7 | 8.9 | 3.1 - 20.6 | Suzuki et al. (1984b) | |
| New Guinea | hair | 40 | 4.5 | 0.9 - 12.1 | Suzuki et al. (1988) |
| Norway | urine | 103 | 4 d | 0.6 - 24 d | Lie et al. (1982) |
| Poland | whole blood | 270 | 11.3 d | 2.5 - 24 d | Szucki & Kurys (1982) |
| hair | 505 | 2.2 | 0.02 - 10 | ||
| maternal hair | Sikorski et al. (1986) | ||||
| (scalp) | 141 | 1.9 | 0.02 - 41 | ||
| (pubic) | 141 | 1.0 | ND - 32 | ||
| neonatal hair | 141 | 0.11 | ND - 0.62 | ||
| Swedene | hair | 18 | 0.4 | Ohlander et al. (1985) | |
| hair | 41 | 0.53 | Forhammer et al. (1984) | ||
| United Kingdom | whole blood | 88 | 8.8 d, f | 1.1 - 42 d | Sherlock et al. (1982) |
| urine | 77 | 2.4g | ND - 8g | Taylor & Marks (1973) | |
| USA | whole blood | 210 | 8.1h | 0 - 50 h | Gowdy et al. (1977) |
| whole blood | 25 | 3.4 | 0 - 7i | Kuhnert et al. (1981) | |
| placenta | 25 | 6.7j | 0 - 13i | ||
| Yugoslavia | hair | 34 | 1.5 | 0.4 - 3.3 | Horvat et al. (1988b) |
| maternal blood | 34 | 3.7d | 1.2 - 9.6 d | ||
| umbilical blood | 34 | 7.7 d | 1.2 - 21 d | ||
| placenta | 34 | 13 | 2.8 - 37 | ||
| Northern hemispherek | hair | 312 | 3.1 | 0 - 9 | Airey (1983) |
| Northern hemisphere | hair | 4603 | 2.3 | 0 - 5 | Airey (1983) |
| Southern hemisphere | hair | 1449 | 1.7 | 0.8 - 2.5 | Airey (1983) |
a No known occupational exposure; fish consumption usually less than one meal per week.
b The units for mercury concentrations are: µg/kg for placenta, mg/kg for hair, and µg/kg for blood and urine, unless otherwise stated. ND = not detectable.
c This reference contains data on levels published prior to 1976.
d µg/litre
e Pregnant women.
f Values are for adults
g µg/g creatinine
h Values after exclusion of 9 samples >50 µg/kg as outliers; without the exclusion the mean was 14.2 and range 0-298 µg/kg
i Range estimated as twice the standard deviation.
j The placentae were perfused to remove blood before analysis.
k North of 22° latitude.
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