Table 4.

Low-level hair and blood mercury levels in pregnant women.

Study Site	Average rice consumption (g/capita/day)a	Average fish/shellfish consumption (g/capita/day)a	Median Hair THg (μg/g) (n)	Median Blood THg (μg/L) (n)	Reference
Guangxi, China	231	18	0.40 (398)	1.2 (397)	This study
Alaska, USA	20	59	0.47 (150)		Arnold et al. (2005)
Mexico	15	25–27b	0.39 (371)	2.88–2.79 (217–248)	Basu et al. (2014)
Sweden	17	25b	0.35 (127)		Ask Björnberg et al. (2003)
Norway	13	42b		1.67 (119)	Brantsaeter et al. (2010)
South Africa	47	16		0.60 (349)	Channa et al. (2013)
France	16	95	0.52 (645)		Drouillet-Pinard et al. (2010)
Spain	26	76		3.9 (140)	Garcia-Esquinas et al. (2013)
Avon, UK	19	52		1.86 (4134)	Golding et al. (2013)
Slovenia	11	25c	0.297 (574)		Miklavcic et al. (2011)
Massachusetts, USA	20	29d	0.45e (135)		Oken et al. (2005)
Massachusetts, USA	20	59	0.6f (393)		Orenstein et al. (2014)
USA	20	59		0.7e (1183)	Razzaghi et al. (2014)
North Carolina, USA	20	59		0.45e (210)	Sanders et al. (2012)
New Jersey, USA	20	39g	0.53f (189)	0.99f (149)	Stern et al. (2001)
Istanbul, Turkey	22	20		0.38e (143)	Unuvar et al. (2007)
Michigan, USA	20	18h	0.23 (1024)		Xue et al. (2007)

n (sample size), THg (total mercury).

^aAside from this study and otherwise indicated in footnotes b–f, average per capita consumption of rice and fish/shellfish were obtained from FAO (2015).

^bMean fish/seafood consumption reported in manuscripts.

^c25 g/day from Miklavcic et al. (2011).

^d29 g/capita/day=(1.2 fish meals/week × 170 g/meal)/7 days (Average of 1.2 fish meals/week from Oken et al. (2005)).

^eGeometric mean.

^fAverage.

^g39 g/capita/day=(83 fish meals/year × 170 g/meal)/365 days (Average of 83 fish meals/year from Stern et al. (2001).

^h18 g/capita/day=(19.6 fish meals/6 months × 170 g/meal)/30.5 days (Average of 19.6 fish meals/6 months from Xue et al. (2007).