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other sources of information on mercury

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Governmental organizations

Australia

Environment Australia

Food standards

National Occupational Health & Safety Commission 

National Pollutant Inventory

Canada

Environment Canada and its "Mercury and the Environment" page (French version)

National Pollutant Release Inventory

Improving the Estimates of Anthropogenic Mercury Emissions in China-sponsored by Environment Canada

European Union- Environment

EU Mercury Strategy

European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau - BAT reference documents (BREFs) for a number of different industrial activities such as chlor-alkali manufacture, cement and lime production, etc.

United States of America

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - Toxicological Profile on mercury

EPA Mercury Website

Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Program

US Geological Survey: Statistics and information on the worldwide supply, demand, and flow of mercury

Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL): Mercury Emissions Control page 

Florida - Department of Environmental Protection: Mercury Page

Maine - Department of Environmental Protection: Mercury Page

Virginia - Department of Environmental Quality: Air Pollution Control Board: State Advisory Board Mercury Documents 

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality: Office of Pollution Prevention

Wisconsin - Department of Natural Resources: Mercury Page

Inter-governmental organizations

Arctic Council

Arctic Council Secretariat

Arctic Council Monitoring Programme (AMAP)
 

 AMAP Workshop on Statistical Analysis of
 
Temporal Trends of Mercury in Arctic Biota (Report
 of the workshop, Swedish Museum of Natural  
 History,Stockholm, 30 October- 3 November 2006

Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) for the Convention the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area

http://www.helcom.fi/ 

 World Health Organization (WHO)  Mercury related Activities in WHO-Opportunities for
 Action

International Programme on Chemical Safety, IPCS   (WHO/ILO/UNEP)

Publications

Sustainable Development and Healthy Environment - Environmental Health Impacts from Exposure to Metals
(WHO)
 http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section23.htm

 Report of an Inter Regional Workshop, Simla, India,
 June 2005. WHO/SEARO, ICMR, CDC/ATDSR

New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG-ECP)

Mercury Action Plan

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

The Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC) project

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Environment Directorate

Risk Reduction Monograph No. 4: Mercury - Background and National Experience with Reducing Risk

Commission for the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

http://www.ospar.org/ 

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution - Protocol on Heavy Metals

Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-Range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)

United Nations Division for Sustainable Development

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/index.html 

 United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Global Mercury Project

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 
GPA Clearing-House Nodes

 Heavy metals (including a separate mercury page)

Non-governmental organizations

Zero Mercury Working Group

http://www.zeromercury.org/

Canadian Arctic Resources Committee

http://www.carc.org/ 

COMERN (Collaborative Mercury Research Network)

http://www.unites.uqam.ca/comern/ 

EuroChlor

http://www.eurochlor.org/ 

Greenpeace

Toxics

Mercury Policy Project

http://www.mercurypolicy.org/ 

The Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA)

Mercury Programme

Our stolen future

http://www.ourstolenfuture.com

World Clorine Council

http://www.worldchlorine.com/

8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, 6-11 August 2006

http://www.mercury2006.org/

Health & Environment Alliance
Formerly EPHA Environment Network (EEN)
 http://www.env-health.org
 
Clean Air Foundation automobile switch out program   http://www.cleanairfoundation.org