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School
Spills and Exposures Across the United States
Over the
last few years, mercury spills have been reported in schools in
Arizona, Kentucky, Michigan, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and
Nevada. While knowledge of the dangers of
mercury exposure is becoming more widespread and efforts to
reduce and eliminate mercury in schools have increased, the
number of reported spills has also steadily gone up each year.
The EPA reports in 2004 alone there were 12 cases of
mercury spills in U.S. schools.
Mercury incidents in schools have been reported as recently
as March 2005, at a high school in Madison, Kentucky, when a
student brought a bottle of elemental mercury to school. Three
classrooms were contaminated and the school was closed for ten
days.
For a full description of school spills across the U.S.,
visit EPA Web
site.
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