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Transfer of Inorganic Mercury to Milk of Goats

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ALTHOUGH poisoning due to mercury in foodstuffs is well established1, little is known about the transit of the food web by mercury compounds. Because of the importance of milk in the human diet, we have investigated how lactating animals metabolize mercury, not by administration of gram quantities of mercury as was done before2,3 but at environmental levels.

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  1. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701

    MARMION HOWE

  2. Division of Continuing Education, East Carolina University, PO Box 2727, Greenville, North Carolina, 27834

    JAMES MCGEE

  3. Department of Physical Biology, New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850

    F. W. LENGEMANN

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HOWE, M., MCGEE, J. & LENGEMANN, F. Transfer of Inorganic Mercury to Milk of Goats. Nature 237, 516–518 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237516a0

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