3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury

Monday, June 7, 2010 - 06:00 in Health & Medicine

The first United Nations negotiating session for a global, legally binding mercury treaty begins today in Stockholm. Continuing through Friday, this is the first of five planned negotiating sessions that will address global controls on mercury, a toxin that causes neurological damage and impairs brain development in infants and children around the world.

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