Products That May Contain Mercury

• Thermostats
• Thermometers with silver bulbs
• All fluorescent and HID lamps, some neon lamps and “bug zappers”
• Batteries: mercuric oxide and some alkaline batteries
• Various switches and relays in electronics (e.g. clothes’ irons, curling irons, computers, cellular/portable phones, sump pumps and some appliance lid lights)
• Pilot light flame sensors
• Gauges (e.g. barometers, manometers)
• Automotive HID and Xenon headlamps, some interior lights, some hood/trunk lights and entertainment systems
• Mercurochrome®/merbromin (topical disinfectant)
• Thimerosal (preservative found in some nasal sprays and older contact lens solutions) and other drug uses
• Weight/counterweight in grandfather clocks
• Jewelry (usually glass ampules made in Mexico)
• Spiritual/ritual use in some Caribbean/Hispanic communities
• Vintage toys (e.g. the Mercury Maze game)
• Some chemistry sets
• And some people have jars of elemental mercury (a silver liquid) just sitting around!

If you come in contact with mercury, call your State, or National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222!