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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

End Of Mercury Thermometers Is Near

By Frank D. Roylance, The Sun (Baltimore)While many Maryland residents probably still have them in their medicine cabinets, or on their walls, the retail sale of mercury thermometers has been banned in Maryland since 2002 because of mercury's hazards as a powerful neurotoxin. There are similar bans or restrictions in at least 17 other states, with more such legislation pending elsewhere, according to the Interstate Mercury Education and Reduction Clearinghouse.

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  1. Yet they take away regular incandescent light bulbs and force us to switch to mercury filled cfl bulbs.... Who's running this country?

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