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Mercury Continues to be a Threat to the Conservation of Marine Mammals Carin Wittnich*, DVM, MSc; Michael Belanger, ALAT; Nesime Askin, MSc;Karim Bandali, PhD and W. Jack Wallen, PhD. Oceanographic Environmental Research Society, Barrie, Ontario & Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. *Presentor. Heavy metal pollution tends to be …

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Is Teflon (PFOS) another significant global toxic threat to marine mammals? Wittnich, Carin 2,3,4 ; MacNeil, Joanna E 1,4 ; Belanger, Michael P 3,4 ; Askin, Nesime 2,4 (1) Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Ramsay Wright Bldg, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ont, M5S 3G5, Canada(2) Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Rm 7256 MSB, …

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Transplacental Transfer: The Beginning of Mercury Accumulation in a Fetal Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) Joanna MacNeil 1,2; Dr. Carin Wittnich 1,2; Michael Belanger 1 (1) Oceanographic Environmental Research Society, 12 Burton Avenue, Barrie, Ontario L4N 2R2, Canada(2) Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada Lactation has long been considered the primary …

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Mercury bioaccumulation in fish and its implications for top predators: Humans Chelsea Lim (1), Mike Belanger(2), Carin Wittnich(1,2) 1 Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada2 Oceanographic Environmental Research Society, 12 Burton Avenue, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, L4N 2R2 The oceans have long since been a dumping ground …

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