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For the non-profit rate of $25, you can order a testing kit to find out how much mercury you have in your body.
 Order your test kit today!
 The Sierra Club is co-sponsoring a project to raise awareness about the dangers
of mercury pollution. For the non-profit rate of $25, you can order a testing
kit to find out how much mercury you have in your body. We can offer
these kits at such a low rate because we charge only enough to cover the cost
of materials and the lab-processing fees.
The test involves snipping a small sample of your hair and sending it to an
academic laboratory, the Environmental Quality Institute at the University
of North Carolina-Asheville, which will process the results. The kit includes
a cardboard scale to measure your hair sample size, plastic gloves, postage-paid
and pre-addressed envelopes to submit the sample, and detailed instructions
that help guide you through the testing process. Your data will also be added
anonymously to a UNC research study, which will have the largest sample size
of any study to date, on the effects of mercury in the U.S. population.
When you receive your results, you will also get information about what you
can do to reduce your exposure to mercury.
Interim test results from this largest ever hair sampling project released in February found mercury levels exceeding the EPA's recommended limit of one microgram of mercury per gram of hair in one in five women of childbearing age tested.
Order your test kit today!
Photo: Dragan Trifunovic/iStockPhoto; used with permission.
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