Assessment of mercury level in commonly consumed marine fishes in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Hajeb, Parvaneh, Selamat, Jinap, Ismail, Ahmad, Abu Bakar, Fatimah, Bakar, Jamilah, Mohammad, Abd Rahim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13304/1/Assessment%20of%20mercury%20level%20in%20commonly%20consumed%20marine%20fishes%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13304/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Twelve species of common marine fish consumed by Malaysians were collected from local wholesale market in Malaysia; the mercury concentrations in muscle and liver samples were determined by cold vapour atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The mercury concentration in the samples, expressed in μg g−1...