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Article: Exceeding the methyl mercury reference dose: how dangerous is it?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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The methyl mercury exposure data presented by Hightower and Moore (2003) with regard to San Francisco fish consumers illustrates how regular consumption of certain species of fish can lead to an exposure that exceeds the current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reference dose (RfD). However, in spite of the impression given by the cover headline "High Health Cost of Eating Expensive Fish," the study sheds little light on the question of whether the health of the authors' patients was affected by their methyl mercury exposure. Hightower and Moore investigated the relationship between methyl mercury exposure, fish consumption, and the U.S. EPA RfD--not the ...
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