Seven people, including two children, were taken to the hospital after investigators found mercury levels 600 times the acceptable level for humans in a home in New Britain, Conn.
Two children are in the hospital and a New Britain home has been condemned after mercury levels 600 times the acceptable limit were found in a home Tuesday.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Emergency Response Unit received a call from a local hospital to investigate possible mercury contamination at a residence on Hatch Street in New Britain after two children were hospitalized. One of the children had found a jar of silver liquid in the home and started playing with it and another juvenile, upon seeing it, scooped up the liquid and disposed of it, according to DEEP.
The Emergency Response Unit found levels close to 600 times the permissible limit for human exposure to mercury.
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