A US Government Document Admits That Mercury Vapors From Silver Fillings Exceeds The Minimum Risk Levels Established By The US Department Of Health & Human Services! As always controversies exist when those who are in opposition are ignorant of the facts. The facts are now clear. Buried in the 351 page document "Toxicological Profile For Mercury (Update) May 1994 published by the US Department of Health & Human Services the scientific truth has finally been divulged. On page 125 of this document it states: "A report from the Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs (CCEHRP) of the Department of Health and Human Services determined that "measurement of mercury in blood among subjects with and without amalgam restorations... and subjects before and after amalgams were removed... provided the best estimates of daily intake from amalgam dental restorations. These values are in the range of 1-5 ug/day (Dept. of Human Health & Services 1993, page III-29). The chronic inhalation Minimal Risk Level is 0.014 ug/m3....The proposed acute Minimal Risk Level is 0.02 ug/m3. Thus, both MRL's are below estimated levels from dental amalgams." According to the World Health Organization the general sources of mercury in the body are: Breathed Air (.040 micrograms), Fish (2.34 micrograms), Non-fish food (.25 micrograms), Drinking-water .0035 micrograms), mercury vapor from dental amalgams (3 to 17 micrograms). The mercury vapor from dental amalgam alone is a bigger source than all the other sources together.