Overt environmental injustice’ continues at Grassy Narrows, medical journal concludes – CBC
New medical research looks at ‘interwoven history of mercury poisoning in Ontario and Japan’
Dec 21, 2016
A medical student at Queen’s University says he was surprised to discover the history of mercury poisoning near Grassy Narrows First Nation, as part of a research project that became an article in this month’s Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Adam Mosa said the project started with an interest in the neurological effects of environmental toxins and resulted in an article titled, The interwoven history of mercury poisoning in Ontario and Japan, co-authored with Jacalyn Duffin.
The article outlines what Mosa calls the “disparate” approaches that Japan and Canada took to dealing with industrial mercury contamination in the 1950s and 60s.
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