lethal amounts of mercury Posted: 11-23-04 09:45am
Does anyone know how much mercury is
lethal to humans?
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PattyV
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 1103 Location: Chicago area
Posted: 11-24-04 12:13pm
I do not have exact numbers,but I was a a
lecture a few weeks ago that discussed
mercury in fish.The speaker said the new
guidlines were not to have more than 2
servings of light tuna a week,also to
avoid large predatory
fish(swordfish,shark,king mackeral,etc)eat
no more than once a month due to high
mercury levels.One thing I found very
interesting was,he said wild salmon was
okay.In fact,farm raised salmon had higher
mercury levels than wild.This was due to
the fact that farmraised salmon are fed
ground fish-that has high levels of
mercury in it.As far as anything else,not
sure about mercury in other things(dental
fillings have not been proven to be
toxic-controversial-but no real
theroies).Patty
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drexl
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 37 Location: canada
Posted: 12-10-04 17:37pm
Don't drink mercury, if your thinking of
killing yourself with it it is supposedly
one of the most painful ways you can
possibly go, worse then bleach.
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drexl
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 37 Location: canada
Posted: 12-10-04 17:38pm
Don't drink mercury, if your thinking of
killing yourself with it it is supposedly
one of the most painful ways you can
possibly go, worse than bleach.
