 Resource
List
List of resources and links to external resources are provided as a public service, and do
not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health.
Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Toxicology
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop E-29
Atlanta, GA 30333
FAX: 404-639-6359
On the Internet at ToxFaqs.
ATSDR Information Center Phone: 1-877-422-8737.
American
Dietetic Association
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention - 1-800-311-3435
MMWR Weekly 3/2/01. Blood
and Hair Mercury Levels in Young Children and Women of Childbearing Age
-- United States, 1999.
Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission - 503-238-0667
Environmental
Working Group
Environmental
Protection Agency - 206-553-4273
National Advice on
Mercury in Freshwater Fish for Women Who Are or May Become Pregnant,
Nursing Mothers, and Young Children.
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water.
Environmental
Protection Agency
National Advice
on Mercury in Fish Caught by Family and Friends: For Women Who Are
Pregnant or May Become Pregnant, Nursing Mothers, and Young Children. January
2001.
Food
and Drug Administration -1-800-SAFEFOOD
Mercury in Fish
& Pregnancy
National
Fisheries Institute
Puget
Sound Water Quality Action Team- 1-800-54-SOUND
Outside Washington, call: 360-407-7300
National
Academy Press - 1-800-624-6242
Toxicological Effects of
Methylmercury. National Research Council. Copyright 2000. National
Academy of Sciences.
Connecticut
Environmental News Network
Mercury
warnings on the rise in Connecticut
Washington
State Department of Health
Office of Environmental Health Assessments
Phone: 1-877-485-7316 or 360-236-3176
Washington
State Department of Ecology - 360-407-7006
"Proposed
Strategy on Persistent, Bioaccumulative Toxins"
"Prevent
Mercury Spills" (pdf)
"Mercury in
Edible Fish Tissue and Sediments from Selected Lakes and Rivers of
Washington State" Ecology Web Site
Washington
State Department of Fish and Wildlife - 360-902-2200
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