“Trafficking in mercury is not like selling potato chips,” said Michael Bender, ZMWG International Coordinator. “There are well known consequences when mercury gets haphazardly produced, traded and subsequently released into the biosphere.”
Mercury is a potent persistent neurotoxin that bio-accumulates, posing the greatest risks to developing children, coastal populations and millions of small-scale gold miners using mercury around the globe.
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