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EU should curb mercury emissions from cremations, campaigners say

By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Environment campaigners are calling for curbs on mercury emissions from human cremations as part of pollution controls that EU authorities will debate this month. Increased cremation as shortage of land makes burial expensive has coincided with a rise in emissions of the toxic metal from fillings in teeth. An average cremation releases 2 to 4 grams of mercury, data compiled by U.S. researchers shows. Mercury is associated with mental development problems. …