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Risk Assessment

http://www.tera.org/news/faroe%20mixtures%20rfd.pdf This is a .pdf file on an analysis of the faroe islands and the toxic substance levels of  Methylmercury, PCB's, and DDT in the wildlife, showing implications for risk assessment of the area.

http://www.tera.org/pubs/CDR%20Chapter4.pdf Risk assessment of eating fish.  It includes information on DDT, PCBs and Methylmercury.

http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/Suppl-2/watanabe.html Abstract of an article printed in the EHIS network on the evolution of our understanding of Methylmercury as a health threat.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000460E1-FBD5-1CCF-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=1  Organisms in Algae-Rich Lakes May Absorb Less Mercury Recently, the Food and Drug Administration decided to revisit its recommendations regarding fish consumption for pregnant women because of mercury's harmful effects.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D9E0D-3688-1C60-B882809EC588ED9F&pageNumber=1&catID=1 Medication May Explain Lincoln's Legendary Fits of Rage.  According to research published in the Summer 2001 issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, pills Lincoln took for depression were likely to ...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D97EE-31FF-1EC9-8E1C809EC588EF21&pageNumber=1&catID=1 Packaged Whale Meat in Japan Contains High Levels of Mercury

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B8A34-BF4B-1C5A-B882809EC588ED9F&pageNumber=1&catID=1 Farm-raised Fish Come Clean: Over a three-year period, Charles Santerre of Purdue University and his colleagues tested metal levels in catfish, trout and crawfish grown in aquaculture facilities