Claudia Vega

There's not enough awareness to care about where the gold is coming from.

I mean, there are places that they buy gold, they don't care about where it's coming from.

It has to be more awareness.

It,

Does, but it's hard to do the traceability.

Right now, there's not an effective way to trace gold.

That's one of the problems.

Because the thing is, like, if you have, like, a gold producer with mercury and then you have another one that is producing in a clean way, then you just melt it and you have a mix of gold.

And, like, there's no way to trace it.

Yes.

Like when I give a talk or a presentation, I usually try to figure out how I make the problem their problem too.

And usually, for example, when I talk with women,

I start with a famous picture of the Minamata disaster, which is the first case of mercury intoxication.

And you have a mother holding her children with malformation.

And that's how we start, for example.

Like I try to show that it's something that can affect them.

And one thing that I usually mention, like, for example, in the U.S.,

Red-necked wombs are advised not to consume tuna.

Right, right.

And the reason is because of mercury.