Palo Alto Hospital Program

• City teamed with hospital staff

• Voluntary project

• City provided specific technical information

• Focus on non-mercury alternatives

  • Non-mercury equipment
  • Replacing reagents with mercury (thimerisol, merthiolate, mercurochrome, phenylmercuric acetate)

(www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/cleanbay/publications.html)

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