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Heavy Metal Fish: New Warnings About Mercury Tell Seafood Buyers to Beware
from protectingourhealth.org
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From U.S. News and World Report --This piece discusses California’s move to post warning signs in supermarkets in an effort to make people aware of the risk in eating mercury-laden seafood. There is public confusion due to the mixed messages it receives about how healthy and good fish is for you coupled with the dangerous threat of its mercury content.
“ David Acheson, chief medical officer for the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, says the agency hopes to act by fall. The FDA plans to rely on public education, rather than regulation, to reduce the risk, he says. "Our whole approach to tuna and methylmercury is to make sure that the folks who need to limit their exposure get our message." ”
