Heavy metal environmental pollution especially with toxic metals from a variety of sources leading to cumulative and serious health hazards in human beings is the cause of concern for all today. In the absence of any proper medicine to treat acute as well as chronic poisoning, only preventive precautions like safe drinking water and food, avoiding direct or indirect exposure to the sources, early detection and measures to avoid further exposure of the poisoning, public awareness campaign and using mass media for vide publicity of various informative and awareness programmes, are some of the important parameters for the policy makers and future planners including the medical professionals, forensic toxicologists, health organizations and the NGOs to deal with this international public health problem.
Pollution, Toxic Metal, Anthropogenic, Cadmium, Arsenic, WHO, Minamata Disease, Mercury, Chromium, Forensic Toxicologist
