Mercury contamination
Assignment Overview
You are an Environmental Health Specialist in the public health department of the county where you reside. The city council is concerned about mercury pollution in a local lake area that is a major fishing and camping recreational attraction and brings many visitors.
Case Assignment
Your task in this Case Assignment is to:
- Explain to the park community what the risks from fishing and swimming in the lake may be, due to mercury contamination.
- Compare the risks from being in the lake water or eating fish caught in the lake, for different types of lake users (pregnant women, young children, older children, adults).
- Prepare a list of recommendations and organize the list by potential uses of lake water and consumption of fish caught in the lake.
Assignment Expectations
Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your paper. Should be intext citations to back your sources of information.
Length: The SLP assignment should be 4-5 pages long (double-spaced).
Required Reading
Bhavsar, S. P., Awad, E., Mahon, C. G., & Petro, S. (2011). Great lakes fish consumption advisories: Is mercury a concern? Ecotoxicology, 20(7), 1588-98.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). Workplace safety & health topics: Chemicals. Retrieved on 4/17/16 at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/chemical.html
National Library of Medicine. (2015). Tox town: Chemicals. Retrieved on 4/17/16 at http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals….
National Institutes of Health. (2015). National library of medicine toxicology tutor II: Toxicokinetics. Retrieved on 4/17/16 at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor.html
National Institutes of Health. (2015). National library of medicine toxicology tutor III: Cellular toxicology. Retrieved on 4/17/16 at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor.html
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.), Sampling and analysis. Retrieved on 4/17/16 at https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/samplinganalysis/
Philip, R. B. (2012). Chapter 2: Water pollution, the usual culprits. In Environmental issues for the twenty-first century and their impact on human health. SAIF Zone, Sharjah, UAE: Bentham Science Publishers.