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On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 7:22:12 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:10:09 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <>
> wrote:
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> > On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 2:22:34 AM UTC-10, BigC300 wrote:
> > >
> > > Are you aware that Tuna fish contains levels of Mercury considered
> > > unsafe to humans? Eating any kind of Tuna on a regular basis is
> > > putting unnecessary risk on your health. Alaska Wild Salmon is much
> > > more healthy. This information was provided by Consumer Reports
> > > testing of fishes for levels of contamination.
> > >
> > > William

> >
> > Is this something we should be worried about? Has anyone died from mercury poisoning from eating canned tuna? Seems rather far-fetched and much ado about nothing to me. Then again, I think everything is much ado about nothing anyway.

>
> Here is some good news on the topic of Mercury.
> http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/40-le...industry-caps/
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> sf


That's good news for a change. Unfor-tuna-tely that's not going to increase my lifespan by any amount of time. Not even a mili-second.