DCHAS-L Archives Jun 04 2006 - Re: MERCURY EXPOSURE IN DURHAM, NC

Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:15:24 -0700
Reply-To: Alan Hall <ahalltoxic**At_Symbol_Here**MSN.COM>
Sender: DCHAS-L Discussion List <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU>
From: Alan Hall <ahalltoxic**At_Symbol_Here**MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: MERCURY EXPOSURE IN DURHAM, NC
Comments: To: chemcon**At_Symbol_Here**JUNO.COM

  All,

  While Patty's IS a very thorough and reliable reference, it is also 
quite expensive, not often updated, and not widely available.

  Another FREE source is the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSBD) from 
the National Library of Medicine.  Quite thorough and frequently updated 
monographs on various types of mercury (elemental, organic, inorganic) 
are available on-line at no charge.  Go to www.nlm.nih.gov 
and from the home page look for a left sidebar and choose toxicology and 
environmental (or something close to that).  You'll get to choose from a 
wide variety of databases, but choose HSDB initially and then you can 
search by CAS number, chemical name, etc.  All can be printed or 
downloaded for no charge.  If you want tons of specific published 
papers, they can be found on TOXLINE using the same types of search 
criteria.

  If you still don't find what you want, contact Mr. George Fonger of 
Specialized Information Services at nlm:  
  George_Fonger**At_Symbol_Here**nlm.nih.gov orr one of his colleagues.  All 
are quite knowledgeable and very helpful.

  For once, your tax dollars doing something really useful!

  Alan Hall
  ahalltoxic**At_Symbol_Here**msn.com
  ----- 
  From: Jay Young 
  To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU 
  Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 2:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] MERCURY EXPOSURE IN DURHAM, NC

  Matt,

  For a thorough and probably the ONLY reliable and readily available
  source of information on the toxic effects of mercury (as well as a 
lot
  of other substances) refer to your local library.  If it is any good 
it
  will have a copy of the multi-volume work "Patty's Toxicology", 5th
  edition, published by Wiley-Interscience.

  Read the entry on mercury.  and be informed accurately.

  Jay Young

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