| detection of localized methylmercury contamination by use of the mussel adductor muscle in minamata bay and kagoshima bay, japan. | based on our previous finding that the concentrations of total mercury in mussel adductor muscle approximated those of methylmercury, we compared concentrations of total mercury in the adductor muscle of the mussel mytilus galloprovincialis, collected from four sites around minamata city from 1993 to 1995 and four sites in kagoshima bay from 1997 to 1998, to assess the level of localized methylmercury contamination. though the input of mercury from the chemical plant had stopped by around 1970, ... | 2000 | 11036979 |