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1989 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Chemicals — Minamata (Japan)

Author : Prof. Dr. Derek Ellis

Published in: Environments at Risk

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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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.

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Title
Chemicals — Minamata (Japan)
Author
Prof. Dr. Derek Ellis
Copyright Year
1989
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74772-4_3