If its good enough for my Scotties its good enough for me. Gary Smith
Ed Engelman/Sue Atkinson wrote:
Exactly what is the mercury compound in Bag Balm?
Mercury is a pollution issue last century and now.
Remember the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carol's story? The character was based on the knowledge that hatters often did become "mad". Mercury was used in the tanning and felting process and it did indeed produce physiologic and brain changes upon long term exposure.
Mercury is being phased out of many products. Mercury is very bioactive and is passed along the food chain, carried by the air, deposited by rain into our water and has been implicated in the decline of loons. Large predatory fish are the most likely to have elevated levels as well as animals and people that eat fish.
One note on Bag Balm is that it is a veterinary product. It does not have a label for human use.
Ed
At 10:53 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote:
Mercury is not outlawed. Thimerosol is still widely used a preservative in
vaccines and mercury amalgam is what is normally used to fill your cavities.
To make this fishing related it has been found that high mercury levels in
some fish is actually a naturally occurring phenomena, not a pollution
issue. Samples of Swordfish caught early last century were tested and
contained very high mercury content. Because they are long lived predators
they tend to concentrate mercury (among other things) over their entire
lifetime. Interesting
Mike M
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Morning,
I'm not absolutely sure. A friend of my dads used to use it. He started
developing some sort of reaction to it. Come to find out the repeated use of
it was causing the reaction. He became sensitive to mercury during his job
in WWII, (he never said what he did). Seams the mercury, or mercury
derivative was what was causing it. As stated in another post, they probably
changed the formula since mercury is basically outlawed anymore. So very
possibly my statement was out of turn from old info.
Jimi
"Good lookin' out Jimi." So, to what degree (in what quanities) is this
mercury problem. I mean so does half the fish you eat.........more or less.
Spose it would matter if you used it everyday like a fiend........but if
it's just a once a week deal......... and not even every week.............??
mark.....
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