Guidance for identifying populations at risk from mercury exposure

Overview

The main purpose of this document is to provide guidance intended to help governments and other organizations identify populations potentially at risk due to exposures to mercury. To do this, the document focuses on the four steps of the risk assessment process, which includes hazard identification, hazard characterization (including dose response assessment), exposure assessment and risk characterization. However, exposure assessment is given the most emphasis. The information generated from these assessments can help governments and other organizations determine priorities for possible intervention to decrease exposure to these populations. The guide includes an overview of assessments of mercury exposure for some specific exposure scenarios. It can be used as a reference for conducting research or investigations regarding mercury exposure.

This publication was developed in the IOMC context.