Mercury Toxic Substances Environmental Health

Raises awareness about the health and environmental threats of mercury contamination and works to reduce mercury exposures from power plants burning coal and municipal and medical waste incinerators.

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• National Institute for Minamata Disease - Conducts medical research to improve treatment for victims mercury of Minamata disease (neurological disorder caused by methylmercury mercury poisoning). Provides project information.
• US EPA Mercury Web Site - Provides Environmental Protection Agency information, research, technical documents environmental health and reports.
• Health Canada: Information on Mercury Levels in Fish - Advisory to Canadians to limit consumption of mercury shark, swordfish, mercury and fresh and frozen tuna.
• Evolution of Our Understanding of Methylmercury as a Health Threat - Scientific paper on mercury posioning from food and water.
• MedlinePlus: Mercury - U.S. National Library of Medicine information on mercury mercury with links environmental health to reviews and articles.
• Mercury - Offers general information on mercury including the health effects and toxic substances household tips.
• Mercury Policy Project - Raises awareness about the health and environmental threats of mercury contamination and works to reduce mercury exposures from power plants burning coal and municipal and medical waste incinerators.
• FDA Announces Advisory on Methyl Mercury in Fish - Offers advice to pregnant women and women of environmental health childbearing age who may become pregnant on the environmental health hazard of consuming certain kinds of fish that environmental health may contain high levels of methyl mercury.
• Clean the Rain, Clean the Lakes: Mercury in Rain Is Polluting The Great Lakes - National Wildlife Federation report reveals that the rain environmental health falling from the skies over the Midwestern U.S. environmental health contains levels of mercury that far exceed what environmental health the Environmental Protection Agency considers "safe" for water.
• Food Safety Research Information Office: Mercury in Fish - Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources mercury on the environmental health poisonous metal and its effects.

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