Tom got mercury poisoning from eating canned tuna every day.

Former Thor workers still suffer from mercury poisoning.

Reportedly, workers employed by Thor on a part time basis as casual labourers were dismissed after they began to suffer symptoms of mercury poisoning.

Calomel... calomel... calomel.

says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives, pesticides and heavy metals like lead and mercury.

Mercury

The Vieques population, however, continued to suffer from various forms of cancer and respiratory diseases, mercury poisoning, water contamination and air pollution.

Mercury cyanide...

inches of mercury

Millimeters of Mercury

Inches of Mercury

mmHg

Assisting the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector to minimize the discharge of highly poisonous mercury used in gold extraction

And this includes 5,000 pounds of mercury from our dental fillings alone every year.

Inches of Mercury inHg

Reportedly, inside Thor apos s factory today are more workers who have been poisoned by mercury, having been consistently exposed to dangerous levels of mercury, sometimes 20 times higher than the internationally accepted safe limit.

inch Hg

A recent study conducted in Finland and published in the journal of the American Heart Association has also linked mercury poisoning in male adults with increased coronary heart disease.

inches of mercury

Methyl mercury is formed in the ocean from mercury created by the burning of fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal in automobiles and power plants.

Delete the entry Ammonium tetrachloromercurate (II) . Annex 2

In the U.S., Japan and the EU, widespread attention is being focused on the dangers to pregnant women and expectant and nursing mothers and their children from the consumption of methyl mercury, a dangerous neurotoxin found in high concentrations in predatory species that can damage the developing brains of fetuses and young children.

Seafood Business, Mercury fear rising, June 2004, p. 1.

If the end game is mercury toxification of our children downwind of coal fire plants as they scuttled the Clean Air Act, then I see that our education programs should be explicitly defined as, Brain death for all children. No child left behind.

To reduce mercury pollution of international waters by emissions emanating from small scale gold mining

The British transnational corporation Thor Chemicals announced that it would phase out all mercury related operations at its Durban plant by the end of 1996, after three Thor executives were charged with culpable homicide and 42 contraventions of safety laws following the death of a worker from suspected mercury poisoning.

To develop capacities and regulatory mechanisms to enable the sector to minimize mercury pollution

In addition, some countries specify as air pollutants heavy metals (such as lead and mercury), volatile organic compounds (such as benzene and formaldehyde) and a broad array of other chemical compounds classified as air toxics.

To build capacity of local laboratories to assess the extent and impact of mercury pollution.

The factory also seems to be the number one suspect in the mercury pollution of the surrounding area.

Poison?

The terms of reference of the Commission are to investigate the history and background of the acquisition of spent mercury catalyst stockpiled by Thor Chemicals as well as additional mercury containing sludge on the premises and to report on the further utilization or disposal thereof, and to recommend on the best practical environmental option to deal with the problem of mercury containing catalyst and or waste currently present on Thor s premises.

5. Thor Chemicals importation of spent mercury catalyst for processing, South Africa (para. 64).

A children's nervous disorder,

Go on, do what I tell you.

I'm poisoned!

The DTs.

Gas.

I've been poisoned!

Honey in the mouth and poison in the heart.

Occupational poisoning

Traumas and poisoning

Strychnine.

Strychnine?

Plague maybe.