Methylmercury Accumulation in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Grown at Abandoned Mercury Mines in Guizhou, China

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• 作者：Guangle Qiu ; Xinbin Feng ; Ping Li ; Shaofeng Wang ; Guanghui Li ; Lihai Shang ; Xuewu Fu
• 刊名：Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：April 9, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：56
• 期：7
• 页码：2465 - 2468
• 全文大小：648K
• 年卷期：v.56,no.7(April 9, 2008)
• ISSN：1520-5118

文摘

Mercury is a global pollutant that can transform into methylmercury, a highly toxic and bioaccumulative organic form. Previous surveys have shown that fish is the main source of human methylmercury exposure, whereas most other food products have an average value below 20 µg/kg and primarily in the inorganic form. This paper reports that methylmercury in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown at abandoned mercury mining areas contained levels >100 µg/kg in its edible portion and proved to be 10−100 times higher than other crop plants. The daily adult intake of methylmercury through rice consumption causes abnormally high methylmercury exposure to humans. The results demonstrate that rice is a methylmercury bioaccumulative plant and the main methylmercury source for human exposure in the areas studied.