Links and Additional Resources:
There is lots of excellent information available about PBTs and the impact they have on our bodies and the environment. Below are a few choice links. Check them out to learn more.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

How mercury affects children
http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/chemicals/

Washington Toxics Coalition
http://www.watoxics.org/pages/root.aspx

Mercury as a Health Concern http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/

What are toxins?
http://www.turi.org/PDF/WhatAreToxicsPrimer.pdf

PBTs in Washington State
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/pbt/pbtfaq.html

http://www.toxicfreelegacy.org/faq/faq.html

The Oregon Center for Environmental Health
http://www.oregon-health.org

Excellent overview with emphasis on chemistry and cycling of mercury
http://www.state.ma.us/dep/files/mercury/hgch2.htm

Overview with emphasis on monitoring Hg in the environment.
http://www.tekran.com/phpcode/backgnd.php

Resources for educators
http://www.mercuryinschools.uwex.edu/

About Mercury

General mercury overview
http://www.testfoundation.org/merctoxicity.htm

Historical overview of Mercury and its uses
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~toxmetal/TXSHhg.shtml

Wikipedia overview
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

Essay with interesting tidbits on mercury
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~eps2/wisc/hg.html

Excellent primer on Mercury
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/merc.html

Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association mercury overview
http://www.newmoa.org/prevention/topichub/

Many links to excellent sites from Medline
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mercury.html

Mercury in the Environment – A Primer by Pollution Probe (Canada)
http://www.pollutionprobe.org/Reports/mercuryprimer.pdf

Environmental Health Perspectives – an overview from 1996
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/

Mercury Policy Project
http://www.mercurypolicy.org/

Periodic Table

Flashy and fun site that includes technical information
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/

Useful purposes, alternatives, and safe disposal of Mercury containing items in buildings, home, industrial and commercial settings – provided by Purdue University
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~mercury/

Engineering fundamentals of mercury
http://www.efunda.com/materials/elements

Industrial chemical processes of mercury
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/reference/

Gold mining

Detailed information on mercury and gold mining
http://www.msha.gov/S&HINFO/MERCURY/HGLETTER.HTM

Overview of the mercury and gold mining
http://www.unr.edu/mines/mlc/mercurygold.pdf

Minamata Bay Disaster

Overview of Minamata Disease
http://www.nimd.go.jp/english/nimd_enkaku.html

Minamata Bay Recovery
http://www.lookjapan.com/LBsc/02FebFrom.htm

Famous Photograph that helped bring world attention to Minamata Disease by William Eugene Smith. This may well be the first environmental pollution photojournalism
http://www.geocities.com/minoltaphotographyw/