Morvin Stayner > wrote in
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> sandi > wrote in
> news:4606fc55$0$14954$892e7fe2 @authen.puce.readfreenews.net:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Just asked a question about tuna oil.
>>
>> What is your favorite canned tuna? And is it with or without
>> oil?
>>
>> I have gotten to like the Bumble Bee brand with oil.
>>
>>
>> Thanks all.
>
> Read this and you might switch to sardines...

I adore sardines and saltines. YUM!!!!!!!!!
>
> http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...a_mercury.html

Thanks for the info.

> FDA Urged to Crack Down on Tuna Mercury Levels
> August 2, 2005
>
> The Food and Drug Administration?s advisory urging limits on
> how much tuna children and some women should eat fails to
> provide adequate protection against mercury poisoning,
> according to an independent group studying the issue. The
> Mercury Policy Project says one out of 20 cans of white,
> albacore tuna should be recalled as unsafe for human
> consumption.
>
> "Our test results confirmed what FDA has known for well over a
> decade: white tuna has much higher mercury levels than light
> tuna, with samples at the 1 part per million FDA action level.
> This is the level FDA uses to recall fish from the
> marketplace," said Michael Bender, the group?s director.
>
> "FDA's own food safety committee recommended that the Agency
> revise its advisory, but FDA has failed to act because of
> undue influence by industry," said Bender. "FDA should stop
> protecting the fishing industry's profits and start protecting
> children."
>
> Methylmercury -- the organic form mercury assumes in fish --
> is a potent neurotoxin that poses the greatest risk to the
> developing fetus, infants, and young children. The latest data
> from the CDC indicates that 5.6 percent of women of
> childbearing age in the U.S. have unsafe mercury levels that
> may place the developing fetus at risk.
>
> Canned tuna is consumed in 90 percent of American households
> and accounts for over 20 percent of US seafood consumption.
>
> What should consumers know when they head down the tuna aisle
> at the supermarket?
>
> "They need to know that white tuna has between three to five
> times as much mercury, on average, as the light can tuna,"
> Bender told ConsumerAffairs.Com. This has been demonstrated,
> not only by the testing that we've done, at Consumers Union,
> but also the testing that FDA did.
>
> "Pregnant women and young children should be advised to avoid
> consuming albacore white tuna, as the Rhode Island Department
> of Health recommends," Bender added.
>
> Albacore accounts for about one-third of all canned tuna sold
> in the U.S. The independent testing found that mercury levels
> in white canned tuna averaged over 0.5 ppm.
>
> How much fish a person can eat before exceeding the U.S.
> Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) "virtual safe
> limit," called a reference dose (RfD), depends on body weight
> and mercury content of the fish. For example:
>
> • A 22 pound toddler eating only 2 ounces of tuna per week
> with a 0.5 ppm mercury concentration would have an intake over
> 4 times the EPA's RfD, according to the group.
>
> • If a woman with a typical weight of 132 lbs eats 12 ounces
> of canned tuna per week (the limit advised by FDA) with a 0.5
> ppm mercury concentration, she will exceed by 4 times the
> EPA's RfD.
>
> • An 88 pound child consuming one 6 ounce can of tuna with a
> 0.5 ppm mercury concentration weekly would be exposed to 3
> times the EPA's RfD standard.
>
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