Unsafe mercury levels found - The Nation: Group to inform UN conference of contaminated fish, human hair samples
A civic group will submit to the United Nations a report showing that fish in a river in Prachin Buri, and hair samples taken from villagers living nearby, contain high levels of mercury believed to come from an industrial park in the province
The group plans to submit the report to a UN conference on mercury contamination in Geneva next week. The conference is aimed at encouraging government agencies around the world to strengthen measures to control contamination caused by factories.
"All human-hair and fish samples collected from the site near the industrial park in Prachin Buri were tainted with mercury at a high level that exceeded safety standards," said Penchom Sae-Tang, director of Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH), who led the research team that compiled the report.
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