Shinichiro Shimbo

TL;DR: Pb exposure levels among Asian populations appear to be similar to the levels in Europe and in the United States, whereas Cd exposure seems to be higher in Asia than in Europe.

TL;DR: Calculation for daily Cd intake via rice, taking advantage of the present findings on Cd contents in rice and wheat together with administrative area-specific daily consumptions of rice andWheat showed that Cd via rice is much more than Cdvia wheat and that CD via Rice is highest in an area alongside the sea of Japan among the whole country, the observation being in agreement with the results from a previous food duplicate-based field survey.

TL;DR: Investigation of whether rice is still a leading source of cadmium (Cd) burden among general populations in Japan found that rice was the most influential and almost exclusive variable with a partial correlation coefficient of 0.770-0.832, explaining 59-69% of total variation in Cd-Ucr.

TL;DR: Dietary uptake is an almost exclusive route of Cd exposure in the general Japanese population and inter-site variation in dietary Cd intake was primarily due to differences in the intake through boiled rice.

TL;DR: The historical samples collected from 1983 to 1999 demonstrated that the PFOA concentrations in males and females from Kyoto have increased 4.4-fold and 4.3-fold at a rate of increase of 0.49 ng/ml/year and 0.42 ng/ML/year, respectively, in contrast, serum concentrations of PFOS reached a plateau in the late 1980s.