Short documents

• Exposure to mercury: a major public health concern
• Mercury in skin lightening products
• El mercurio en los productos para aclarar la piel
• Mercury in health care
• El mercurio en el sector de la salud

Tools for action

• WHO/UNEP/IOMC (2008). Guidance for identifying populations at risk from mercury exposures. Geneva, Switzerland, UNEP DTIE Chemicals Branch and WHO Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases.
• Shimek, AM; Emmanuel, J; Orris P; Chartier, Y (2011). Replacement of mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers in health care Technical guidance. WHO
  

Norms and guidance values

• Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
  
• Summary statement for mercury in drinking water
• WHO Regional office for Europe (2000). Air quality guidelines for Europe
• Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (2006). Evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants : sixty-seventh report WHO technical report series no. 940)

Educational material

• WHO Children's Health and the Environment (2008). Training Package for the Health Sector

WHO burden of disease estimates

• Poulin J, Gibb H. Mercury: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels. Editor, Prüss-Üstün A. World Health Organization, Geneva, 2008. (WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series No. 16)

Other documents available at INCHEM.