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Human Health
Methylmercury
Criteria Document
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published
new criteria to protect human health from methylmercury. Methylmercury
is the form of mercury that is taken up by plant and aquatic life and
accumulates in the fish. EPA is issuing water quality criteria for methylmercury
to be used by states in determining methylmercury levels in fish tissue.
This aquatic life water quality criteria replaces the criteria for total
mercury published in 1980 and partially updated in 1997.
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Introduction
(PDF, 527K)
- Acknowledgments
- External Peer Reviewers
- Contents
- Executive Summary
Chapters
1 - 3 (PDF, 288K)
- Introduction
- Toxicokinetics
- Toxicological Basis for Criteria
Chapters
4 - 5 (PDF, 604K)
- Risk Assessment for Methylmercury
- Exposure Assessment
Chapters
6 - 8 (PDF, 205K)
- Mercury Bioaccumulation
- Water Quality Criterion Calculation
- References
Appendix
A (PDF, 289K)
- Section I: Draft National Methylmuercury Bioaccumulation Factors
- Section II: Chemical Translators for Mercury & Methylmercury
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