About a dozen melon-headed whales that recently beached in Chiba Prefecture and died had mercury concentrations some 10 times higher than the level the government considers acceptable, a study showed Tuesday.
Tetsuya Endo, a lecturer at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, said the high concentration of mercury was detected in the whales’ muscle tissue.
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