Welcome Remarks
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- Yukio Takizawa
- Director-General, NIMD
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- Ryo Takagi
- Section Chief, Environmental Health Department, Environment Agency of Japan
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- Section I
- Chairpersons: S. Lindberg & Y. Takizawa
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- Total and Methylmercury Levels in Hair of a Coastal Population from the
Brazilian' Northeast
- Monica Costal (Oceanography Department, Federal University of Pernambuco,
Recife, Brazil)
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- Studies on Mercury Exposure of Some Brazilian Populational Groups Living
in the Amazonic Region by Means of Hair Analysis
- M.B.A. Vasconcellos (Radiochemistry Division, IPEN/CNEN-SP, Sao Paulo,
Brazil)
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- Mercury Environmental and Human Contamination in Brazilian Amazon; An Overview
- Olaf Maim (Radioisotopes Laboratory, IBCCF, Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro)
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- Mercury in the Amazon: A Comprehensive Review with Special Emphasis on
Bioaccumulation and Bioindicators
- Marcello M. Veiga (Department of Mining and Mineral Process Engineering,
University of British Columbia)
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- Section II
- Chairpersons: O. Malm & A . Nakano
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- Bio-physical-chemical Mechanisms of Mercury in the Tropics
- Ricardo Melamed (Centro de Tecnologia Mineral- CETEM/CNPq)
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- Neurologic Features of Chronic Minamata Disease (Organic Mercury Poisoning)
Certified at Autopsy
- Makoto Uchino (Department of Neurology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine)
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- Radio and Methylmercury Sensitivity of Cultured Mammalian Cells
- Luiz Drude de Lacerda (Department of Geoquimica, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Brazil)
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- Mercury Pollution of Natural Origin in Kagoshima Bayside Area.
- Kimiyoshi Arimura (The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kagoshima
University)
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- Subjective Complations in a Population Living in the Methylmercury
Polluted Area
- Futatsuka Makoto (Department of Public Health, Kumamoto University School
of Medicine)
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- Section III
- Chairpersons: M.M.Veiga & K. Eto
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- Mercury Research in Slovenia: Current Status of Mercury Contamination and
Research
- Milena Horvat (Department of Environmental Sciences, Jozef Stefan Institute,
Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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- Small- Scale Gold Mining and Its Environmental Impacts in Tanzania
- J.R. Ikingura (University of Dar es Salaam)
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- Atmospheric Mercury in Northern Europe-Concentrations and Time Trends
- John Munthe (Swedish Environmental Research Institute)
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- Investigation into Suspected Mercury Contamination at Sihanoukville, Cambodia
- Mineshi Sakamoto (Department of Epidemiology, NIMD)
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- Levels of Mercury Contamination in Minamata Bay and Kagoshima Bay,
Japan: Mussel Adductor Muscle as a Bioindicator for Methylmercury Contamination
- Masanori Sato (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty
of Science, Kagoshima University)
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- Study on Macrobenthos in Minamata Bay
- Masako Yamaguchi (NIMD)
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- Section IV
- Chairperson: M. Horvat & K. Arimura
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- Certification of Total Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations in Estuarine
Sediment Reference Material, IAEA-405
- M. Coquery (Marine Environment Laboratory, International Atomic Energy
Agency)
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- The Role of Mercury Air/Surface Exchange Processes in the Global Biogeochemical
Cycle
- S. E. Lindberg (Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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- Steps to Improve Our Assessment of the Health Impacts of Environmental
Levels of Mercury Obtained from Fish Consumption
- Ronald E. Wyzga (EPRI)
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- A Simple and Sensitive Radiochemical Technique for Evaluating Mercury
Transformation and Distribution in the Aquatic Environments
- H. Akagi (EPRI)
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- Section V
- Chairperson: R. Wyzga & H. Akagi
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- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations
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Northwestern and Central Europe
- R. Ebinghaus (Institut fur Physikalische und Chemische Analytik)
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- Clinical and Pathologic Studies of Methylmercury Poisoning in Common Marmosets
- Komyo Eto (NIMD)
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- Comparison of Neurobehavioral Changes in Three Inbred Strains of Mice Prenatally
Exposed to Methylmercury
- Kim, C.-Y (Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tohoku University
School of Medicine)
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- Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure in Macaca Fascicularis
- Koji Murao (Department of Clinical Medicine, NIMD)
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- Research Needed to Support Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Methylmercury
Contamination
- Kathryn R. Mahaffey (United States Environmental Protection Agency)
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| Closing remarks |
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H. Akagi (NIMD) |
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