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US Government Document Admits That Mercury Vapors From Silver Fillings Exceeds
The Minimum Risk Levels Established By The US Department of Health & Human
Services!

The last issue of Health & Happiness Newsletterprovided the backround on the
controversial isssue of mercury fillings. As always controversies exist when
those who are in opposition are ignorant of the facts.

***The facts are now clear. Buried in the 351 page document Toxicological
Profile For Mercury (Update) May 1994 published by the US Department of Health
& Human Services the scientific truth has finally been divulged.***

On page 125 of this document it states: "A report from the Committee to
Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs (CCEHRP) of the Department
of Health and Human Services determined that 'measurement of mercury in blood
among subjects with and without amalgam restorations... and subjects before and
after amalgams were removed... provided the best estimates of daily intake from
amalgam dental restorations. These values are in the range of 1-5 ug/day (Dept.
of Human Health & Services 1993, page III-29). The chronic inhalation Minimal
Risk Level is 0.014 ug/m3....The proposed acute Minimal Risk Level is 0.02
ug/m3. Thus, both MRL's are below estimated levels from dental amalgams.'"

According to the World Health Organization the general sources of mercury in
the body are: Breathed Air (.040 micrograms), Fish (2.34 micrograms), Non-fish
food (.25 micrograms), Drinking-water .0035 micrograms), mercury vapor from
dental amalgams (3 to 17 micrograms).

*****The mercury vapor from dental amalgam
alone is a bigger source than all the other sources together.*******

In the book, Mercury Poisoning from Dental Amalgam - a Hazard to Human Brain by
Patrick Stortebecker, M.D., Ph.D., is research by A Gura Knappwost et al
(p.132) which states that when mixed metals are present in the mouth, like gold
crowns and amalgam fillings, a release of mercury occurs that is 10 times
higher when compared to amalgam fillings alone.

Several laboratories have established that mercury vapor is continuously
released from amalgam tooth fillings, and that the rate of release is increased
immediately after chewing (7 to 9 micrograms) and tooth brushing (10
micrograms). Continuous chewing for 10 to 30 minutes results in a sustained
elevation of the oral mercury level which can run as high as 100 micrograms or
more. Eventually these levels decline to a baseline level 90 minutes after
cessation of chewing (Vimy and Lorschreider: "Serial measurements of intra-oral
air mercury: Estimation of daily dose from dental amalgam."J. Dent. Res 64,
1072-1075, 1985).

A microbial conversion of metallic or non-organic mercury into organic
mercurial compounds has been well known since the 1950's. Most strains of
Staphylococci, Streptococci, yeasts and Escherichia Coli (present in human
intestines) are able to convert metallic mercury into methyl mercury. Methyl
mercury is said to be 100 times more poisonous than elemental mercury. (Ely,
T.,"Methyl Mercury Poisoning in Fish and Human Beings," Modern Medicine, Nov.
16, 1970, pp. 135-141.)