Author: Huggins HA.
Source: Oral Health
Year: 1984
Comment:
Abstract / Excerpt:
US. safety standards for mercury exposure, as established by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (1972) is 0.1 mg/ M3 7- ten times this amount. Later, in 1972, the standard was lowered to 0.05 mg/M3 (ANSI, 1972) based on the studies of Smith et al. (1970). In the October issue of the ADA Journal, it recommends 0.02 mg/M3 (Kantor and Woqdcock, 1981). Russia established 0.01 mg as their maximum allowable count ration more than 30 years ago (Smelyanskiy and Nlanova, 1959). Trackh ten berg (1974) states, “Changes in immunological reactivity brought on by low mercury concentration generally fall into two periods, one of stimulated immunological reactivity, and the second in which it begins to decline.” Excerpts from his studies demonstrate these changes
Citation: Huggins HA. Mercury: a factor in mental disease? Part 2. A review of the literature. Oral Health. 1984;74(1):69-71.