Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Loss of IQ due to mercury poisoning is economic productivity loss to U.S.
Published in Mental Health Business Week, July 23rd, 2005
"Methyl mercury is a developmental neurotoxicant. Exposure results principally from consumption by pregnant women of seafood contaminated by mercury from anthropogenic (70%) and natural (30%) sources," investigators in the United States report.
"Throughout the 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made steady progress in reducing mercury emissions from anthropogenic sources, especially from power plants, which account for 41% of anthropogenic emissions. However," said L. Trasande and coworkers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in...
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