Re: Our community need help on Cremation & Embalmment studies

[Joseph R Parrish Jr <JoeParrish@compuserve.com>]

Re: "Such mercury emissions could be eliminated by 
removal of the amalgams prior to cremation."

Few if any crematorium personnel, or funeral directors, 
see as part of their job to remove the teeth of corpses, but, hey,
maybe here is a possible expansion of work for the American 
Dental Association here <G>
But I doubt it.  
Crematories have stringent mercury controls now in Scandanavia,
and should also have them in the US, but we routinely 
lag behind.  One hundred feet from a population of 
children who are the most susceptible population to 
mercury toxicity is ridiculously close.  Ten miles may 
even be borderline.  Activated carbon dust flow devices 
should be required on crematoria to capture mercury emissions, 
just as for muncipal waste incinerators, of course forgetting that 
dioxins also result from burning cadavers.
Joe
NJ/NY Environmental Watch