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Technical Report 
ATSDR Tox Profile 
Addendum to the toxicological profile for mercury (alkyl and dialkyl compounds) 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry :: ATSDR 
2013 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service 
Atlanta, GA 
168 
English 
is a supplement to 1256999 Toxicological profile for mercury
This addendum for Organic Mercury Compounds supplements the Toxicological Profile for Mercury that was released in 1999. Inorganic Mercury and Compounds will be addressed in a separate addendum.

Toxicological profiles are developed in response to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986 which amended the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA or Superfund). CERCLA mandates that the Administrator of ATSDR prepare toxicological profiles on substances on the CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances and that the profiles be revised “no less often than once every three years”. CERCLA further states that the Administrator will “establish and maintain inventory of literature, research, and studies on the health effects of toxic substances” [Title 42, Chapter 103, Subchapter I, § 9604 (i)(1)(B)].

The purpose of this addendum is to provide, to the public and to federal, state, and local agencies a non-peer reviewed supplement of the scientific data that were published in the open peer-reviewed literature since the release of the profile in 1999.

Chapter numbers in this addendum coincide with the Toxicological Profile for Mercury (1999). This document should be used in conjunction with the profile. It does not replace it.