How can I remove redundant entries it the "Open With" pull down?

In Mountain Lion, now, when I right click on a document or image and move down to "Open With" I get a triple redundant (long) list of applications that might do the task. How can I purge the list of all the duplicates?  Part of the problem COULD be that I have three operating systems on my machine,(different spinning disk volumes) snow leopard, lion and mountain lion.  SL and Lion, are not spinning now, but they have been ot one time or another.  Is there a function that re-collects the AVAILABLE disk applications for "Open With?"
Apple needs to update the below product list for "OS X 10.8.1"

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