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Stable mercury isotopes as a

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Cited by4 pages
Metals measured2
Evidence tierB
Year2026

Overview

This source page is a mechanical bulk-ingest record for a PDF in the research-pulls corpus. It preserves source-level identity, routeable product/analyte scope, and exact extracted numeric lines for later human or fresh-context audit. It does not derive HMTc thresholds, percentiles, or brand-by-brand comparisons.

Key numbers

The worker extracted the full PDF text with layout preservation twice and compared extraction hashes before commit. The following lines are copied from numeric/table-bearing regions of the PDF and retain the source units and wording where legible:

  • Zijlmans W and Wickliffe J (2026) Stable specific environmental sources, hindering targeted public health interventions.
  • risk communication (5). The application of mercury stable isotope analysis in public
  • accounted for 52% in background sites, 79% upstream of ASGM, and ance that reflects local environmental and dietary contexts. This can
  • 90% downstream (26). improve the credibility and relevance of public health messaging,
  • Δ199Hg values typically >0.5‰ (26). Δ200Hg, when available, pro- ing governance of biomonitoring data and meaningful community
  • 2 The black box (isotope analysis). Deploy isotope analysis in sion-making and enabling more targeted, equitable interventions to
  • 3 Targeted intervention (Table 1: intervention toolkit). University Institutional Review Board Ministry of Health Suriname
    1. UNEP. Global Mercury Assessment 2018. Geneva: United Nations Environment sources of human methylmercury exposure using stable mercury isotopes. Environ Sci
  • among indigenous Wayana in Southeast Suriname. Environ Sci Process Impacts. (2014) 18. Rothenberg SE, Yin R, Hurley JP, Krabbenhoft DP, Ismawati Y, Hong C, et al. Stable
  • 10.1007/s13280-023-01831-6 speciation and stable isotope signatures in human hair as a tracer for dietary and occupa-
  • cycling in the Yanomami indigenous territory. J Hazard Mater. (2025) 498:139892. doi: and methylmercury in a marine fish: insights from mercury stable isotopes. Environ
  • scitotenv.2020.137832 stable hg isotopes to characterize transboundary hg pollution. Chemosphere. (2018)
    1. Blum JD. “Applications of stable mercury isotopes to biogeochemistry”. In: Baskaran the bioaccumulation of hg in the subtropical Pearl River estuary, South China.
    1. Kwon SY, Blum JD, Yin R, Tsui MT-K, Yang YH, Choi JW. Mercury stable isotopes et al. Contrasting mercury contamination scenarios and site susceptibilities confound fish
  • of fish for mercury biomonitoring: insights from compound-specific nitrogen and stable Environment Programme (2017).
    1. Tsui MT-K, Blum JD, Kwon SY. Review of stable mercury isotopes in ecology and

Methods (brief)

  • persistent challenge remains: the inability to translate collected data into targeted action (10,
  • centrations in environmental media or biological samples (blood, hair, tionation (MIF; reported as Δ199Hg and Δ200Hg) is particularly useful

Implications

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Verification notes

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Update history

The five most recent substantive edits to this page, classified major (evidence or structure moved), correction (a published value or statement was wrong and has been fixed), or minor (narrative rewritten without changing the underlying evidence). Each description is derived from what the edit did to this page; the linked commit is the authoritative record, routine regeneration passes are excluded, and the full version history lives in git. When DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.

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b01ec52c2026-08-04major2 sections added
d49e450f2026-08-03major5 sections added; narrative text revised