Blood mercury and lead concentrations as well as the most consumed food items (marine mammal meat, fish, terrestrial mammal meat and game birds meat) satisfied log-normality criteria and geometric mean were therefore used.
Consumption of marine mammal meat (p < 0.0001), fish (p = 0.01) and game birds meat (p = 0.01) was significantly higher in men than women.
In Hudson Bay region, mean consumption of marine mammal meat (p < 0.0001), fish (p = 0.04), and game birds meat (p = 0.01) was significantly higher than in Ungava Bay.
After the report was published, the retailer pulled the links to all of the products containing marine mammal meat from its Japanese site.
Yes, a report published on February 21 by the Environmental Investigation Agency EIA and Humane Society Internationalal states Amazon sells marine mammal meat, or at least it was selling over 100 cetacean food products on subsidiary site Amazon Japan prior to February 22.
A positive association (Table 5) was observed between blood mercury concentrations and consumption of marine mammal meat, marine mammal kidney and liver and salmon and trout.
Of all theses variables, age was the most highly associated to mercury blood concentrations (partial R2 of 0.20), followed by marine mammal meat consumption (partial R2 of 0.04).
Indeed, the mean intake of marine mammal meat decreased from 28.7 g/day in 1992 to 17.5 g/day in 2004, which represents an approximate 40% decrease [ 67].
A possible explanation for this difference is that Hudson Bay residents consume significantly more marine mammal meat, kidney and liver, which are known sources of mercury intake [ 58- 60].
Since mercury is not known to bioaccumulate in human tissues, this association with age could reflect the tendency of young adults to eat less traditional food (other than marine mammal meat, liver and kidneys) than the young generation.
