Exposure Investigation Protocol: Mercury Exposure in Gold Miners, Nome, Alaska, August 23, 2012

摘要

The Alaska Division of Public Health requested an Exposure Investigation (EI) to assess the potentially hazardous exposures. ADPH proposes to collaborate with the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) laboratory. In this EI, ADPH aims to collect urine samples from gold miners and their family members who may have been exposed to mercury. ADPH will send the urine samples to the NCEH laboratory for mercury and creatinine analyses. ATSDRs Science Support Branch will provide technical assistance, including the review of this protocol and interpretation of the test results.