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Contaminants in Fish and Seafood: A Guide to Safe Consumption
Illinois brochure (pictured at right) contain information regarding the health benefits of fish such as their amounts of protein, minerals, and vitamins. The brochure also describes how chemicals such as mercury and PCBs affect the health of infants and young children. More importantly ...
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news2000june1
The symptoms of mercury poisoning can mimic serious nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, and behavioral and memory changes. Worse yet, the combination of mercury and PCBs in a person's body may cause a "synergistic" effect --- where the sum of the toxic health damage is greater than both chemicals acting individually. We have both PCB and mercury ...
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GLRC Toxic Pollutants Initiative - March 2, 2007
The GLRC Strategy calls for the continued reduction and virtual elimination of persistent toxic substances such as mercury and PCBs in the basin, as well as preventing new toxic threats to the basin through pollution prevention and enhanced surveillance, protecting public health through education and outreach, and ...
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03/19 - Blocked study draws attention to PCBs
Banned in the 1970s, PCBs — polychlorinated biphenyls — enter the food chain and are known to cause birth defects and reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and mammals. PCBs ... in Ann Arbor, Mich., said the potential health damage caused by the presence of mercury and PCBs and other toxins has become more serious since the first advisory was issued in 1989. ...
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Heavy Metals, Mercury, PCBs
Mercury/PCBs Recent Articles Polymer Magic Blog Home Heavy Metals/Mercury/PCBs We are pleased to offer water-based, environmentally friendly products to treat both porous and non-porous surfaces for Heavy Metals, Mercury and PCBs ...
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Mercury Policy Project
Many sources of mercury emissions are also sources of other dangerous persistent, bioaccumulative toxins, such as dioxin, furans, and PCBs. Efforts which undermine controls of mercury ...
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Mercury Policy Project
May - the last month for which complete data is available. The scientists also measured increasing levels of contaminants like DDT and PCBs. Welch says the climate of the planet, and the behaviour of the chemicals, conspire to make the arctic a 'sink' for agricultural and industrial chemicals. "Take ...
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Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances | US EPA
Pest Management International Lead Meetings Mercury Nanotechnology PCBs Pesticides PFOA Pollution Prevention Pollution Prevention and Toxics Publications Science ... and storage of commodity-grade mercury and pending legislation, HR. 1534, the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2007. EPA is committed to finding protective and comprehensive solutions, both domestically and internationally, to complex mercury ...
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Fishing in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
PCBs, mercury and chlorinated organic pesticides, and excess nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. (see Fox River Watch)] The toxics result in fish consumption advisories throughout the region, and ... from tumors, abnormal livers and thyroid glands, and reproductive abnormalities. Walleye On the Fox River and Green Bay, walleye tumors are promoted by the presence of PCBs. Recent studies ...
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Pollutants/Toxics > Multimedia Pollutants > Mercury | Browse EPA Topics | US EPA
Recommended EPA Web pages Mercury Web site that teaches about mercury, and what's being done to protect human health. Mercury ... Contaminants Acetone, Arsenic, Barium, Benzene, Cadmium, Chloroform, Cyanide, Lead, Mercury, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Tetrachloroethylene, Toluene, Trichloroethylene (TCE) Toxic Substances Persistent Bioaccumulative ...
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