8B+Minimata

8B Minamata __//**question1**//__


 * ** minamata disease ** ||

The first Minamato disease is a form of methyl mercury poisoning caused by eating large quantities of fish and selfish polluted by methyl mercury in factory waste water. Minamata disease was officially discovered in 1956 and in 1968 the national govemment announced that it was a pollution disease caused by the Chisso co ltd in additim to the Minamata disease caused by chisso in 1964 Minamata disease also broke out along the Agano River in Niigata prefecture where the showa Denko Corporation used the same production process. Elsewhere in the world damage due to mercury pollution from factorise has also been reported along the Songhua (Sungari) river in china and in Canada. And in recent years rivers and lakes polluted by mercury in the amazon and Tanzania have created serious health concerns. Chiss co. ltd has its head office in Tokyo and factories in Chiba and Okayama prefectures is the company that cause d Minamata disease. Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6