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what paper was this printed in?markautismcharge <mark.connolly.cgb5@...> wrote: http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/12/08/opinion/letters/121625.txtThe Pantagraph's Dec. 2 ``Home front'' column offered wise advice regarding the care and handling of energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps when they break.Citing the Minnesota Department of Health, recommendations include

opening windows to disperse vapors, avoiding use of a vacuum cleaner, placing fragments and cleanup utensils in a sealed plastic bag, and disposing of them at a hazardous waste processing center.All these steps are suggested to reduce mercury exposure.According to ``Frequently Asked Questions - Information On Proper Disposal Of Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs'' published by Energy Star, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, CFLs contain about five milligrams of mercury sealed within their glass tubing. Avoiding exposure to this known neurotoxin is good advice.However, the U.S. government not only allows mercury to be injected into pregnant women, children and the elderly but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly encourages these groups to get the annual flu shot, which contains 25 micrograms of mercury in thimerosal, a

preservative in multi-dose vials.The July 2006 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, included an article titled ``Uncoupling of ATP-Mediated Calcium Signaling and Dysregulated Interleukin-6 Secretion in Dendritic Cells by Nanomolar Thimerosal'' which found negative impacts of thimerosal on immune functioning in a mouse model.More attention should be paid to the dangers posed by mercury injected into the arms of people each fall.Vance Want to start your own business? Learn how on Small Business.

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The Pantagraph, Bloomington Illinois

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http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/12/08/opinion/letters/121625.

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> The Pantagraph's Dec. 2 ``Home front'' column offered wise advice

> regarding the care and handling of energy efficient compact

> fluorescent lamps when they break.

>

> Citing the Minnesota Department of Health, recommendations include

> opening windows to disperse vapors, avoiding use of a vacuum

> cleaner, placing fragments and cleanup utensils in a sealed

plastic

> bag, and disposing of them at a hazardous waste processing center.

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> All these steps are suggested to reduce mercury exposure.

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> According to ``Frequently Asked Questions - Information On Proper

> Disposal Of Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs'' published by Energy

> Star, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

> and the U.S. Department of Energy, CFLs contain about five

> milligrams of mercury sealed within their glass tubing. Avoiding

> exposure to this known neurotoxin is good advice.

>

> However, the U.S. government not only allows mercury to be

injected

> into pregnant women, children and the elderly but the Centers for

> Disease Control and Prevention strongly encourages these groups to

> get the annual flu shot, which contains 25 micrograms of mercury

in

> thimerosal, a preservative in multi-dose vials.

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> The July 2006 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-

> reviewed journal published by the National Institute of

> Environmental Health Sciences, included an article titled

> ``Uncoupling of ATP-Mediated Calcium Signaling and Dysregulated

> Interleukin-6 Secretion in Dendritic Cells by Nanomolar

Thimerosal''

> which found negative impacts of thimerosal on immune functioning

in

> a mouse model.

>

> More attention should be paid to the dangers posed by mercury

> injected into the arms of people each fall.

>

> Vance

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