1989 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Chemicals — Minamata (Japan)
Author : Prof. Dr. Derek Ellis
Published in: Environments at Risk
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The risk of toxic chemicals catastrophically contaminating our food was realised in the 1950s. The name of the city where it happened is now a synonym for this type of risk: Minamata disease.