Year: 2022

IRREVERSIBLE MERCURY CONTAMINATION. "Across the United States, mercury pollution has contaminated 18 million acres of lakes, estuaries, and wetlands (43 percent of the total), and 1.4 million river miles. From 2006 to 2008, the number of lake acres under advisory increased by 18 percent, and the number of river miles increased by 52 percent. And many waterways have not even been tested. In 2008, all 50 states issued fish consumption advisories, because they are contaminated with mercury."" " http://lnkd.in/bg62Q8A. View in LinkedIn

ARTISANAL GOLD MINING is major developing world source of mercury. See global sources of mercury pollution on this informative pie chart. " " http://lnkd.in/bBMa4-j View in LinkedIn

WHO ON DENTAL MERCURY: No. 1 source of mercury vapor in non-industrialized areas. Really, whatever were we thinking when we permitted this toxin in our mouths? 19 tons a year are polluted by the clinical waste stream in the UK alone, one third from dental amalgams. " " http://lnkd.in/bAeWcAs View in LinkedIn

AMALGAM MERCURY -- ONE THIRD OF ALL PRODUCTS. "The Interstate Mercury Education and Reduction Clearinghouse (IMERC), reports that the total mercury sold in dental amalgam in 2004 was 30.4 tons (26% of mercury in all products)."" " http://lnkd.in/bc7zEAB View in LinkedIn

SCANDINAVIA BANS DENTAL" "MERCURY. "The use of mercury in dental fillings is approved in most countries. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden have banned the use of mercury in dental amalgams over environmental concerns, and in Sweden's case also from concerns over its effect on human health."" " http://lnkd.in/b4FQbQ2 View in LinkedIn

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MERCURY IN MAYAN culture. A once dominant culture that became self-destructive, with enormous ritual sacrifices of tearing the living heart out (including the winners of ball games). Cinnabar (red mercury sulfide) is highly toxic and was ground to make vermillion dye that was widely used for decoration and ceramics in Mayan culture. Like the lead poisoning associated with the decay of the Roman culture, mercury toxicity is tantalizingly linked to decline of the once-great Maya culture. Lesson?" " http://lnkd.in/bV9KB9N View in LinkedIn

HISTORIC CASE. "In 1958 a unique illness began to be recognized in the area around Minamata Bay, on the Japanese island of Kyushu....chemical industries around the bay had been discharging inorganic mercury wastes into the waters, where anaerobic bacteria in the detritus on the floor of the bay converted the inorganic mercury into methylmercury. Scientists estimated that biomagnification in food chains may have been as high as a millionfold." This was particularly due to the heavy fish diet and toxin concentration in the food chain. " " http://lnkd.in/bZKDN8R View in LinkedIn

FOOD AND MERCURY. "In 1971-72, a major epidemic occurred in Iraq in which 6,530 persons were hospitalized and almost 500 died. Several nations shipped wheat grain intended for planting to Iraq. The seeds had been treated with a methylmercury-containing fungicide. The seeds were also dyed red to serve as a warning. Unfortunately, the warnings on the bags were in Spanish, because some of the grain had originated in Mexico, and the skull and crossbones, recognized by westerners as meaning poison, meant nothing to the Iraqis." http://lnkd.in/bZKDN8R View in LinkedIn

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE? "Methylmercury became commercially important as a crop fungicide around 1914. Worldwide use was accompanied by worker poisonings and several large-scale food poisoning incidents. Mercury became widely used in developing countries as part of the “green revolution,” without any monitoring of dissemination of mercury." Despite the fact of mercury toxicity was known since the 1800s, no international agreement to control mercury pollution occurred until 2009. " " http://lnkd.in/bnfKPSzhttp://lnkd.in/b2NesnY View in LinkedIn