Mercury's Menace: Chemical Pollution Is Turning Healthy Food Toxic. Lindy Washburn and Alex Nussbaum.
by Washburn, Lindy; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 53Health. Publisher: The Record, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Bodies of water | Fish as food -- Contamination | Health risk assessment | Mercury -- Toxicology | Mercury in the body | Methylmercury | United States Environmental Protection Agency | United States Food and Drug Adm | Water pollutionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Nationwide, advisories about mercury contamination cover 500,000 miles of river, more than 12 million acres of lakes and much of the Atlantic coastline. Because of contaminated fish, 630,000 unborn children--nearly twice original estimates--are exposed to unsafe mercury levels each year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said last month [Feb. 2004]. These children can suffer irreversible changes in the brain and nervous system." (THE RECORD) This article discusses the causes of mercury poisoning in fish, focusing on the waterways and lakes in New Jersey, and reveals the health problems associated with exposure to mercury.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Mercury's Menace: Chemical Pollution Is Turning Healthy Food Toxic, March 22, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Nationwide, advisories about mercury contamination cover 500,000 miles of river, more than 12 million acres of lakes and much of the Atlantic coastline. Because of contaminated fish, 630,000 unborn children--nearly twice original estimates--are exposed to unsafe mercury levels each year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said last month [Feb. 2004]. These children can suffer irreversible changes in the brain and nervous system." (THE RECORD) This article discusses the causes of mercury poisoning in fish, focusing on the waterways and lakes in New Jersey, and reveals the health problems associated with exposure to mercury.
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