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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2008;62:378-379; doi:10.1136/jech.2007.064444
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Prevention of early in life mercury exposures: no more unnecessary delays

Rosa Ramón1,2, Ferran Ballester1,3

1 CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
2 Department of Public Health, Universitat Miguel Hernandez (UMH)
3 Valencian School of Health Studies (EVES)

Correspondence to:
Rosa Ramón, CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), and Department of Public Health, Universitat Miguel Hernandez (UMH), Spain, Escuela Valenciana de Estudios para la Salud (EVES), Juan de Garay 21, 46017 Valencia, Spain; ramon_rosbon@gva.es

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

"Take some more tea", the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

"I’ve had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can’t take more".

"You mean you can’t take less", said the Hatter: "it’s very easy to take more than nothing"

Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll

Known since the 19th century, the adverse neurological effects of mercury experienced by the felt-hat workers called "the madness of hatters" were graphically described in chapter 7, "A Mad Tea-Party" by Lewis Carroll. Mercury and its compounds are now considered a threat to human beings, ecosystems and wildlife owing to their high toxicity and persistence in the environment. For this reason, the European Commission presented its Community Mercury Strategy, a global action plan to address mercury pollution in 2005.1

Fish consumption is the main source of human exposure to methylmercury in developed countries. Methylmercury crosses both the placental barrier . . . [Full text of this article]


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