The Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) has been investigating mercury-added skin lightening products (SLPs) for several years, primarily due to their health risks, their illegality under many national laws, and the prohibition by the Minamata Convention on Mercury against the manufacture and trade of mercury-added SLPs, which generally became effective …
Over 150 workers at an electrical factory in southern China have tested positive for suspected mercury poisoning, state press said on Thursday, in the latest work-safety scandal to hit the nation. Urine samples from 590 workers at the Foshan Electrical and Lighting Co. in Guangdong province were tested late last …
Mercury has been investigated as a possible cause of autism, but its association with autism remains uncertain. Hertz-Picciotto et al. examined blood Hg levels and sources of Hg exposure among participants in the Childhood Autism Risk from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study, including 2- to 5-year-old children classified as …
Fish accumulates high levels of toxic chemicals in their flesh and fat that are known to cause cancer and brain degeneration. Fish consumption is the sole source of human exposure to mercury that is known to cause severe health problems, including brain damage, memory loss and personality change.
Twenty-five years after Union Carbide's accursed chemical plant spewed 42 tonnes of poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, killing 8,00010,000 people, and debilitating thousands of others, a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that toxic waste lying at the plant premises still contaminates the …
Faced with concerns of the presence of mercury in the CFL bulbs, Delhi government is now making attempts for environment-friendly and energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs in the city. Environment activists have been raising concerns on the mode of disposal of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulbs containing toxic mercury. Chief …
With the 22 December 2008 collapse of a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) ash pond in Kingston, Tennessee, and the arrival of the Obama administration the following month, the regulatory ground is shifting in regards to coal combustion waste (CCW), the millions of tons of waste left over each year from …
Mercury, specifically methylmercury (MeHg), has been shown to cause developmental and neurologic effects, with the severest effects being observed after catastrophic exposure to communities in Japan and Iraq [Bakir et al. 1973; Harada 1995; Kondo 2000; National Research Council (NRC) 2000]. Exposure to MeHg can come from many routes, but …
Fifteen commercially important verities of fish have so far disappeared over a decade from the Sitakunda sea belt in Chittagong because of massive seawater contamination by unsafe ship-breaking, according to a study. The study shows that fishes like River Shad (Tenualusa Ilisha), Jwelled Shad (Ilisha filigera) locally known as Choikka, …
A material flow analysis, carried out with the use of data available in New Jersey, has been instructive in placing mercury aspects of CFLs in perspective with other uses and releases mercury.
Ignoring the presence of a high level of toxic metals in the groundwater in Narela Industrial area, the Delhi government has initiated a housing project there, risking the health of prospective occupants, an expert panel has said. Taking serious note of the matter, the State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) has …
Scientists have detected mercury contamination in every one of hundreds of fish sampled from 291 freshwater streams, according to a U.S. government study released on Wednesday. More than a quarter of those fish contained concentrations of mercury exceeding levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the protection of people …
When government scientists went looking for mercury contamination in fish in 291 streams around the nation, they found it in every fish they tested, the Interior Department said, even in isolated rural waterways. In a statement, the department said that some of the streams tested were affected by mining operations, …
