Mercury Poisoning in Paper Pica

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To the Editor: During a testing program to detect the exposure of Indian and Inuit residents of Canada to methyl mercury, a 46-year-old native woman was found to have the highest recorded mercury level in Manitoba. A hair sample (the concentration of mercury in hair is proportional to its concentration in blood and is many times higher than that level) revealed a value that corresponded to a level of 251 ppb in blood. Subjects were considered at risk for mercury poisoning if they had over 100 ppb of mercury in their blood; the normal range is less than 20 ppb. . . .

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  • PICA: A HYPOTHESIS
    British Journal of Haematology, 1977
  • Pica
    Published by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1976