date:Dec 05, 2012
A report to be released Tuesday by the Biodiversity Research Institute in Gorham, Maine, evaluates the amount of mercury in fish species around the world and suggests that levels of the toxin previously deemed safe are probably not.
The report, Mercury in the Global Environment, is part of evidence being compiled for talks next year on a proposed United Nations global treaty to reduce mercury use and pollution, said David Evers, executive director of the institute and part of the U.N. Environme