Methyl mercury is a neurotoxin most likely to be consumed when you

A) eat contaminated produce.
B) drink water polluted by sulfur and nitrogen oxides.
C) eat fish in which the toxin bioaccumulates.
D) breathe air contaminated by photochemical smog.


C

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