Metals known to have harmful health effects found in indigenous exposed to oil spills

People from two indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon who live close to the country’s longest oil pipeline have mercury, cadmium and lead in their bodies at concentrations harmful to their health. This was the conclusion of a study carried out jointly by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and the Peruvian National Center for Occupational Health and Environmental Health Protection, with the support of the Peruvian Ministry of Health.