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The New Jersey Department of Health' Environmental and Occupational Health Surveillance and Indoor Environment Programs, in coordination with the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/National Center for Environmental Health (ATSDR/NCEH), began investigating mercury exposures in children and staff who had attended the Kiddie Kollege Day Care Center on Delsea Drive, Franklinville, Gloucester County. This page contains materials provided to parents and staff during the course of that investigation, as well as links to reference materials and other resources. For further information, please contact us.
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NJDOH and ATSDR/NCEH Activities and Information
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Medical Resources
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Information about Mercury (from ATSDR/NCEH)
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References
- Mercury Toxicity (Diner et al, 2005) (focuses on exposure to elemental mercury in dental amalgams and methylmercury from fish consumption) [pdf 161k]
- Mercury Exposure in Children (Counter et al, 2004) (review of epidemiologic studies of mercury exposures in children, particularly methylmercury) [pdf 343k
- A Cluster of Pediatric Metallic Mercury Exposure Cases Treated with meso-2,3-Dimercaptosuccinic Acid (DMSA)(Forman et al, 2000) (case study of children exposed to high levels of elemental mercury and treatment with DMSA) [pdf 155k]
- Neurobehavioral Effects of Dental Amalgam in Children (DeRouen et al, 2006) (comparison of neurobehavioral effects in children with and without mercury amalgams, with follow-up up to seven years) [pdf 174k]
- Neuropsychological and Stress Evaluation of a Residential Mercury Exposures (Fiedler et al, 1999) (effects of mercury exposure among residents of a converted mercury vapor lamp factory in Hoboken, NJ)
- Evaluation of Mercury in Urine as an Indicator of Exposure to Low Levels of Mercury Vapor (Tsuji et al, 2003) (reviews the relationship of low levels of mercury vapor in air to urinary mercury concentrations)
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Public Health Resources
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Links
Environmental and Other Resource
Searchable Databases
- ToxNet (National Library of Medicine, databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and toxic releases)
- MedLine Plus Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health)
- Environmental Health Perspectives (peer-reviewed research on the impact of the environment on human health)
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