1. Mercury and Thiomersal: A Global Problem and Solution
... hearing, and memory problems ".1 One of the main causes of mercury poisoning is from methylmercury in fish, which cannot leave the body because it is imbedded in tissue. The main solution to get rid of worldwide mercury emissions and mercury poisoning is to limit the use of mercury, for example, in dental practice and gold mining. However, thiomersal, a mercury compound, is ... of mercury sold on the black market because there is more demand in gold mines, which makes regulations of the sales of mercury extremely hard, and while there is no solution for this right now, it is something t...
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