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bsandle@southern.co.nz (Brian Sandle) wrote:


>Dagfinn Reiersol (reiersol@telepost.no) wrote:
>: The more I read your postings, the less I understand what you are
>: getting at. You keep changing the subject and the content of your
>: claims. A while ago, you said:
>: 
>: >Giving an average level for mercury uptake from food has not much 
>: >significance, I think. It is rather like giving an average level for 
>: >sound exposure. Everyone is supposed to be able to cope with average level.
>: 
>: Now, in your last posting, you're triumphantly giving us average
>: levels again:
>: 
>: >   
>: >   Daily dietary intake:   0.004 - 0.02 mg
>: > 
>: 
>: Which is it? Are average levels significant or aren't they?

>As I said, that was responding to your 31 Dec article in which you quote 
>Skare as saying:

I didn't quote Skare. Ulf did. I happen to believe Skare is right
about fecal mercury excretion from amalgam, but I don't feel like
spending time defending that point of view right now.

>>He also says: " In a recent paper by Becker and Kumpulainen (38), it was
>>reported that the average daily intake of total mercury from a normal
>>Swedish diet might be 1,8 microg Hg."

>I presume that means under 2 microgram. I don't know why he says 'might'. 
>It seems rather low compared to the figure I have found on the Web.

I'll grant you this: your fish data may well be an indication that
mercury intake from fish is higher in New Zealand.

>: You haven't disputed the WHO figures about mercury uptake from 
>: amalgam, yet now you say:
>: 
>: >And with amalgam fillings the mercury is no longer the risk since it is 
>: >locked pretty well to the silver and copper.

>Because you are telling us about the horrors of mercury and I want to 
>make it quite clear that having an amount of mercury in the mouth 
>equivalent to the amount in tooth fillings is not the same as having 
>it in amalgam form.

Of course not. Absolutely. I agree completely. We would all be dead if
that were the case.

>: You don't seem able to distinguish between toxicity and allergy:

You still don't.