1) I need to find the average mercury content in Baby Food.

2) Also, I need the chemical method used by the FDA (or another study altogether) to find the amount of mercury in foods. How they test, what they use, etc.

I'm having trouble finding this info, troll on, hopefully someone will find something I can use.

7/16/2008 7:10:05 PM

paging ncsugirl83 if no one helps by the time she gets back online

7/16/2008 7:10:45 PM

what have you tried so far

7/16/2008 7:10:59 PM

about every single combination I can think of, over 30-40 searches... maybe someone can think of something I haven't.

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 7:12 PM. Reason : i'm still searching, i'll check back in a bit]

7/16/2008 7:11:49 PM

http://www.cehn.org/cehn/policy/mercurybabyfood2003.html

saw that

didn't read it though

7/16/2008 7:12:20 PM

http://www.milestonesci.com/mercres-apps.php

I guess you can request it?

7/16/2008 7:13:31 PM

need the concentration in PPM (parts per million), PPB (per billion), or mg/kg

the chemical method question would be more useful, honestly

7/16/2008 7:14:21 PM

lol poor people and their leet hyperlinking skills

file:///C:/My%20documents%20-%20Personal/My%20Webs/cehn/policy/mercurygroupcomments.html

7/16/2008 7:15:05 PM

here's a good one:

http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/infsheet/1999/no190/table1-3.pdf

or at least it gives you specific units

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 7:16 PM. Reason : mg/kg]

7/16/2008 7:15:54 PM

you try searching databases and articles on like, the ncsu library database?

7/16/2008 7:17:57 PM

sweet, thanks ^^

on to question 2

7/16/2008 7:18:08 PM

^^ and yeah, that'd absolutely be the best way to go

7/16/2008 7:18:36 PM

thanks, that's saving me a lot of time

7/16/2008 7:21:22 PM

any idea where I should look for the methods used to detect mercury levels?

I'm not really much of a chemist.

7/16/2008 7:30:56 PM

send a text to chacha

7/16/2008 8:03:24 PM

haha ncsugirl83 might answer that too

7/16/2008 8:03:49 PM

pm'ed her, anyone else?

7/16/2008 9:14:13 PM

We need a Tdub google.

7/16/2008 9:15:28 PM

any luck yet??? i'm at work and can't do research atm

7/16/2008 9:18:38 PM

no

7/16/2008 9:26:33 PM

i'll be home before tooooo long...i'll see what i can do

7/16/2008 9:35:50 PM

7/16/2008 9:37:02 PM

i was gonna bump this so ncsugirl saw it

7/17/2008 3:32:33 AM

this look helpful???


http://www.fda.gov/cder/fdama/mercuryreport.htm



http://www.heavymetalstest.com/mercurytest.php

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 3:53 AM. Reason : oops]

7/17/2008 3:48:17 AM