Mercury miasma

 

1. Mercury morass

2. Danger signs

3. Mercury mystery

4. Safety: in eye of beholder?

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Paper
Blood Organic Mercury And Dietary Mercury Intake... Kathryn Mahaffey et al, Environmental Health Perspectives, Apr. 2004.

Changing All the Rules, Bruce Barcott, The New York Times Magazine, April 4, 2004.

Estimation of the Dietary Intake of Organochlorine Pesticides, Heavy Metals, Arsenic, Aflatoxin M1, Iron and Zinc through the Total Diet Study, Urieta I et al, 1996. Food Addit Contam 13:29-52.

Influence of Prenatal Mercury Exposure... (New Zealand Study), Kenny S Crump et al, Risk Analysis, (18) 6, 1998.

Letter to Environmental Protection Agency (by 35 mercury scientists), Apr. 28, 2004, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation

Neurotoxic Risk Caused by Stable and Variable Exposure to Methylmercury from Seafood (Faeroes study), P. Grandjean et al, Ambulatory Pediatrics, Jan-Feb. 2003.

Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure from Ocean Fish Consumption in the Seychelles Child Development Study, Myers, Gary, et al, Lancet , 5/17/2003, Vol. 361 Issue 9370, p1686, Should Pregnant Women Avoid Eating Fish? Lessons from the Seychelles. Lyketsos, Constantine G. Lancet , 5/17/2003, Vol. 361 Issue 9370, p1667.

Electronic
FDA-EPA fish consumption advice.

Blood Organic Mercury and Dietary Mercury Intake: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 and 2000, Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2004, Kathryn R. Mahaffey et al.

The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

The New Jersey Mercury Pollution Task Force

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Advice on mercury levels in fish

The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation

Workshop proceedings on the fate and transport of mercury in the environment.

Mercury research in the USGS.

Ontario's mercury loading experiment.

Why mercury is an international issue.

Medline's mercury resource page.

The EPA on mercury.

Mercury in fish and shellfish.

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