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Preliminary data on mercury concentrations in school children blood samples, Croatia

In May and June 2007, in the framework of the EU FP6 Integrated Project PHIME - Public health impact of long-term, low-level mixed element exposure in susceptible population strata http://www.phime.org/, a survey was conducted on cadmium, lead and mercury content in the blood samples of elementary school children in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ecuador, Morocco and China, but also in the elementary schools of Croatia (Koprivnica, Virje and Molve). A total of 150 children blood samples from a children in elementary schools in Podravina region (from rural, urban and industrialized area) age 7-9 years, girls and boys equally represented, were collected. Blood samples were collected by medical staff from the Division of Public Health Koprivnica krizevacka County, while a laboratory research on blood mercury concentration have been performed at the Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia.

blood; mercury; school children; Croatia

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