We all seem to have gotten the message to eat more fish but we aren't getting the follow up message about the dangers of fish laced with Mercury. Maybe the "powers that be" aren't getting the message out to us.
Factories and power plants are spewing fumes loaded with mercury. The air-borne contaminated air settles and the Mercury concentrates in bodies of warer, streams, lakes and oceans. The fish absorb the Mercury and the fish at the top of the food chain have the highest levels of mercury. These include tilefish, shark, swordfish, King mackerel and tuna.
Consumer Reports has criticized the FDA for failing to alert people to the danger of Mercury in a diet. It has long been recommended that pregnant women and children should avoid the suspect fish but Consumer Reports advises no one should be eating canned tuna or tuna sushi. And if you are eating more than 24 ounces of fish a week you should be avoiding the fish high in Mercury.
You can read about the problem in the February 20 issue if The Week. In the meantime, skip the tuna sub for lunch.
Factories and power plants are spewing fumes loaded with mercury. The air-borne contaminated air settles and the Mercury concentrates in bodies of warer, streams, lakes and oceans. The fish absorb the Mercury and the fish at the top of the food chain have the highest levels of mercury. These include tilefish, shark, swordfish, King mackerel and tuna.
Consumer Reports has criticized the FDA for failing to alert people to the danger of Mercury in a diet. It has long been recommended that pregnant women and children should avoid the suspect fish but Consumer Reports advises no one should be eating canned tuna or tuna sushi. And if you are eating more than 24 ounces of fish a week you should be avoiding the fish high in Mercury.
You can read about the problem in the February 20 issue if The Week. In the meantime, skip the tuna sub for lunch.
No more canned tuna? It was such an easy stand by staple.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't food news and updates ever be what we want
them to be? Someone better come up with a safer canned tuna.
Pronto!