ny: High mercury levels found in Ravena residents' blood, hair

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High mercury levels found in Ravena residents' blood, hair.

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By Nearing Albany Times Union 7 January 2011

Nearly one person in 10 tested for toxic mercury had elevated blood

levels enough to warrant a visit to their doctor, according to a Harvard

University School of Public Health study of people who live around the

Lafarge cement plant.

The results, based on a study of 172 people who last spring volunteered

to give blood and hair samples, also found that */eating local fish is

not behind most of the elevated mercury levels/*.

The state [on behalf of coal-plant investors] advises that the best way

to avoid mercury exposure is not to consume local fish.

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