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I think one good way to deal with toxic BIS-GMA from composite fillings or
mercury and electric potentials from amalgams is to find out about
prevention of tooth decay.

As for Dagfinn's argument about faecal excretion of mercury having
significance in terms of the amount going into the environment and then to
fish he has now modified that suggestion. He was trying to make us think
that humans were a very large source, and therefore in great danger
themselves from amalgam fillings, I would say. Here are some places to
start looking if you wish to help deal with mercury and other pollution.

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          One of the South's most hazardous waste sites, Linden Chemicals
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          Brunswick, Georgia, a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
          official declared after finding high levels of mercury,
          polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and lead in soil and water.

          Officials have found mercury concentrations as high as 12,500
          parts per million (ppm) and PCBs as high as 3,600 ppm in
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Brian Sandle (bsandle@southern.co.nz) wrote:
: Dagfinn Reiersol (reiersol@telepost.no) wrote:
[...]

: : Here in Norway, industrial pollution has been reduced so much that
: : most of the mercury has been amalgam from dental offices, at least
: : until recently. Now amalgam separators are mandatory, and as far as I
: : can tell when and IF that becomes effective, fecal mercury will
: : probably be the main source of mercury pollution.
: 
: That is just far out. Mercury is an element with a natural distribution. 
: You are correct that certain water ways can be polluted as happened at 
: Minimata, Japan, where the cats were running in circles from eating fish 
: with _very_ high mercury level. But you notice the fish from New Zealand 
: sea waters has high mercury and there are not industries all around the 
: coast. It is naturally occurring mercury. I think we will find your story 
: to be overestimating very considerably the effect of human excretion. One 
: million people at 20 micrograms per day would be 20 grams of mercury, 
: probably the amount in one blood pressure meter. I shall try to find the 
: amount that industry was discharging. 
: 
: : So stopping the use of amalgam will help reduce people's intake of 
: : mercury from fish, too.
: 
: I feel that that is just sales hopes.