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UP prof raises alarm on toxic fish in Laguna de Bay

dc.coverage.spatialLaguna de Bayen
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-15T06:35:00Z
dc.date.available2018-11-15T06:35:00Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-20
dc.identifier.citationUP prof raises alarm on toxic fish in Laguna de Bay. (2015, June 20). Manila Bulletin, p. 2.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/2920
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherManila Bulletin Publishing Corporationen
dc.titleUP prof raises alarm on toxic fish in Laguna de Bayen
dc.typenewspaperArticleen
dc.citation.journaltitleManila Bulletinen
dc.citation.firstpage2en
local.subject.classificationMB20150620_2en
local.descriptionConsuming milkfish, tilapia, carp, mudfish, cream dory or kanduli that thrive in Laguna de Bay may be fatal after health experts said the bay was full of heavy metals accumulation that could cause serious ailments, including cancer. This was the warning given by Dr. Victorio B. Molina, an associate professor in public health at the College of Public Health of the University of the Philippines in Manila (CPH-UPM), in a recent article on Acta Medica Philippina, the national health science journal published since 1939. In his article entitled “Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Fish from Laguna de Bay: An Assessment of Health Risks from Heavy Metals Bio-accumulation in Fish,” Molina said “fish samples of bangus, bighead carp, dalag, kanduli, and tilapia collected during the wet and dry seasons were analyzed for cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic, and chromium.en
local.subject.personalnameMolina, Victorio
local.subject.corporatenameCollege of Public Health of the University of the Philippines in Manila (CPH-UPM)en
local.subject.scientificnameArius disparen
dc.subject.agrovocBiological poisonsen
dc.subject.agrovocpublic healthen
dc.subject.agrovocheavy metalsen
dc.subject.agrovocsamplesen
dc.subject.agrovoccadmiumen
dc.subject.agrovocleaden
dc.subject.agrovocmercuryen
dc.subject.agrovocarsenicen
dc.subject.agrovocchromiumen
dc.subject.agrovoccarcinogensen
dc.subject.agrovocfishen
dc.subject.agrovocHuman fooden
dc.subject.agrovocchemical pollutantsen
dc.subject.agrovocChemical pollutionen
dc.subject.agrovoccadmiumen
dc.subject.agrovocchromiumen
dc.subject.agrovocdry seasonen
dc.subject.agrovocfood consumptionen


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