Abstract
The risk of toxic chemicals catastrophically contaminating our food was realised in the 1950s. The name of the city where it happened is now a synonym for this type of risk: Minamata disease.
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“However, we cannot understand why he went out of his way to concern himself with this question, in spite of the fact that he has nothing to do with medicine and biology. His arguments are so crude that we cannot but suspect that he is motivated by some social factors in expressing his view on the question. It is quite natural that none in the medical world paid attention to his assertations.” (Tokuomi 1969)
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Ellis, D. (1989). Chemicals — Minamata (Japan). In: Environments at Risk. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74772-4_3
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