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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 […]

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,

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

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