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SenSafe™ Mercury Check™ for water quality testing is a quick and easy method to test for high levels of Mercury. SenSafe™ Mercury Check™ utilizes groundbreaking patented technology in our SenSafe™ test strip (US Patent No. 6541369). The SenSafe™ test strip improves colorimetric reaction by allowing a fluid flow of the water sample through the aperture. The test procedure for this test is simple and quick. Just dip one test strip into a 200 mL (7 oz) or greater water sample. Move the strip in a back and forth motion for 60 seconds. Remove the strip from the water sample and shake once to remove the excess water. Wait 30 seconds and then match to the closest color. Fast, efficient, cost effective, and easy-to-use are the qualities that make SenSafe™ Mercury Check™ a must have when testing Mercury.

Part # 480048. Testing time approx. 2 minutes. Testing range <50, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 ppb (μgL).

Mercury is odorless, colorless, and tasteless, unless under a black light, then the vapors can be seen rising from the tooth like it was a cigarette. Mercury is a natural and very poisonous substance, its chemical symbol is Hg, and the commonly found and used chemical of Mercury is Mercuric Sulfide Hgs. It is a refined form of Cinnabar. It is used in many different forms in our society. It is used in paint, Batteries, and many other industrial and household uses including the well known use in thermometers. It is also used as 50% of the contents of amalgam dental fillings.

Mercury poisoning symptoms are systemic. This means that it doesn’t just affect one part of the body, but it affects every system in the body. In addition to this, mercury poisoning inhibits the immune system and therefore the patient will have other diseases as well.

Mercury poisoning is the result of too much exposure to the poison mercury. Mercury is destructive to the immune system and causes many unrelated diseases. This can delay treatment, because both doctor and patient are attempting to cure other diseases and not the original cause.

Mercury poisoning can be caused by any number of methods of exposure. Amalgam dental fillings are a main cause, other causes are eating fish that have been exposed to mercury in the environment, industrial and work place exposures such as those in the paint industry, even in the hospital (and home) setting poses a potential threat to mercury poisoning because of the mercury in thermometers, dropping or somehow breaking a single thermometer is a very hazardous situation even without touching the mercury because of the vapors produced by the mercury.

Some other sources of mercury are cosmetics. There have been several cases of mercury poisoning in the south western states by a company that sold a beauty cream with "calomel" listed as an ingredient. Calomel is mercurous chloride (HgCl2). This product had mercury levels around 10%.

In Germany, there were cases of mercury poisoning through the use of over the counter hair bleaching products that had no warning label concerning the contents. The results were the Classic signs of mercury poisoning - loss of hair and discolored fingernails.