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AT a recent national conference in the United States on baseline studies of pollutants in the marine environment1 serious doubts were raised about the validity of most published measurements of lead concentrations in seawater and in marine organisms. Available data for foods and other plant and animal tissues are also implicated because they may contain similar concentrations of lead.
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CHOW, T., PATTERSON, C. & SETTLE, D. Occurrence of lead in tuna. Nature 251, 159–161 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251159a0
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