Washburn, Lindy,
Mercury's Menace: Chemical Pollution Is Turning Healthy Food Toxic. Lindy Washburn and Alex Nussbaum. - The Record, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 53, Health, 1522-323X; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. 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.
1522-323X;
United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Food and Drug Adm.
Bodies of water
Fish as food--Contamination
Health risk assessment
Mercury--Toxicology
Mercury in the body
Methylmercury
Water pollution
AC1.S5
050
Mercury's Menace: Chemical Pollution Is Turning Healthy Food Toxic. Lindy Washburn and Alex Nussbaum. - The Record, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 53, Health, 1522-323X; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. 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.
1522-323X;
United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Food and Drug Adm.
Bodies of water
Fish as food--Contamination
Health risk assessment
Mercury--Toxicology
Mercury in the body
Methylmercury
Water pollution
AC1.S5
050