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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Jan. 7, 2006

Regulatory Hair-Splitting Saps State Warnings on Mercury

SAN FRANCISCO - For all of its reputation as a bad actor promoting mental illness, birth defects and cancer, mercury has proven remarkably resistant to attempts to force enhanced warnings about it on medications and food.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        For all of its reputation as a bad actor promoting mental illness, birth defects and cancer, mercury has proven remarkably resistant to attempts to force enhanced warnings about it on medications and food.
        That's despite the existence in California of a unique right-to-know la...

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