Environmental Health

The New Jersey Department of Health' Environmental and Occupational Health Surveillance and Indoor Environment Programs, in coordination with the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/National Center for Environmental Health (ATSDR/NCEH), began investigating mercury exposures in children and staff who had attended the Kiddie Kollege Day Care Center on Delsea Drive, Franklinville, Gloucester County. This page contains materials provided to parents and staff during the course of that investigation, as well as links to reference materials and other resources. For further information, please contact us.

• Kiddie Kollege Health Consultation [pdf 1m]
• Timeline of Activities [pdf 20k]
• Kiddie Kollege Mercury Fact Sheet #1: August 2, 2006 [pdf 29k]
• Kiddie Kollege Mercury Fact Sheet #2: August 15, 2006 [pdf 31k]
• Kiddie Kollege Mercury Fact Sheet #3: October 5, 2006 [pdf 37k]
• Kiddie Kollege Fact Sheet #4: November 10, 2006 [pdf 111k]
• Kiddie Kollege fact Sheet #5: January 2007 [pdf 114k]
• Urinalysis Results August 15, 2006 [pdf 10k]
• Medical Records Review Request [pdf 42k]
• Consent Form for Medical Record Review [pdf 22k]
  
  
  

• Mt. Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
• Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
• Case Studies in Environmental Medicine - Pediatric Environmental Health

• Toxicological Profile: Mercury
• ToxFAQs Chemical Agent Briefing Sheet

• Mercury Toxicity (Diner et al, 2005) (focuses on exposure to elemental mercury in dental amalgams and methylmercury from fish consumption) [pdf 161k]
• Mercury Exposure in Children (Counter et al, 2004) (review of epidemiologic studies of mercury exposures in children, particularly methylmercury) [pdf 343k
• A Cluster of Pediatric Metallic Mercury Exposure Cases Treated with meso-2,3-Dimercaptosuccinic Acid (DMSA)(Forman et al, 2000) (case study of children exposed to high levels of elemental mercury and treatment with DMSA) [pdf 155k]
• Neurobehavioral Effects of Dental Amalgam in Children (DeRouen et al, 2006) (comparison of neurobehavioral effects in children with and without mercury amalgams, with follow-up up to seven years) [pdf 174k]
• Neuropsychological and Stress Evaluation of a Residential Mercury Exposures (Fiedler et al, 1999) (effects of mercury exposure among residents of a converted mercury vapor lamp factory in Hoboken, NJ)
• Evaluation of Mercury in Urine as an Indicator of Exposure to Low Levels of Mercury Vapor (Tsuji et al, 2003) (reviews the relationship of low levels of mercury vapor in air to urinary mercury concentrations)

• Resource List for Special Child Health Services (Gloucester County and Vicinity) [pdf 21k]
• New Jersey Department of Health
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• National Center for Environmental Health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Mt. Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health

Environmental and Other Resource

• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• USEPA Children's Health Protection page
• Children's Environmental Health Network

Searchable Databases

• ToxNet (National Library of Medicine, databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and toxic releases)
• MedLine Plus Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health)
• Environmental Health Perspectives (peer-reviewed research on the impact of the environment on human health)