Question

Minimata disease was caused due to consumption of

• A. Sea food containing lot of cadmium
• B. Fish contaminated with mercury
• C. Oysters with lot of pesticide
• D. Sea food contaminted with selenium

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Mercury was responsible for the Minimata epidemic that caused several deaths in Japan. This tragedy had occurred due to consumption of heavily mercury contaminated fish ($27$ to $102\, ppm$ ) by the villagers. The source of mercury to the bay was a chloride producing plant using $HgCl _{2}$ as a catalyst.