Canned Tuna Fish Should Carry Mercury Warning Labels!

All dangerous canned tuna fish should carry warning labels just like
"ingredients" and "nutrition facts." There is currently no way
someone would know that eating normal canned tuna fish could have
serious health effects especially in children, as the below SF Gate
and Wall Street Journal Articles demonstrate.

According to the FDA, white albacore is so dangerous that an adult may
eat only one 6 ounce can per week! But nowhere on the can does anyone
find this advisory! An average person might eat as many as 7 or more
cans per week as white albacore is otherwise as good of a protein
source as chicken! They would thus have 700% the safe limit.

From:
NRDC Mercury Contamination in Fish - Learn About Mercury and Its
Effects http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/effects.asp

"Mercury and Human Health:

Humans risk ingesting dangerous levels of mercury when they eat
contaminated fish. Since the poison is odorless, invisible and
accumulates in the meat of the fish, it is not easy to detect and
can't be avoided by trimming off the skin or other parts.

Once in the human body, mercury acts as a neurotoxin, interfering with
the brain and nervous system.

Exposure to mercury can be particularly hazardous for pregnant women
and small children. During the first several years of life, a child's
brain is still developing and rapidly absorbing nutrients. Prenatal
and infant mercury exposure can cause mental retardation, cerebral
palsy, deafness and blindness. Even in low doses, mercury may affect a
child's development, delaying walking and talking, shortening
attention span and causing learning disabilities.

In adults, mercury poisoning can adversely affect fertility and blood
pressure regulation and can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss
and numbness of the fingers and toes. A growing body of evidence
suggests that exposure to mercury may also lead to heart disease."
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/effects.asp

How much Fish/mercury is safe? Find out here:
NRDC Mercury Contamination in Fish - Eating Tuna Safely
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/tuna.asp

Calculate Mercury levels in all types of fish:
Mercury Fish Calculator
http://www.gotmercury.org/article.php?list=type&type=75

Handy Wallet Mercury Fish Advisory Card:
Helps you remember how many servings of various types of fish is safe
per month:
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/walletcard.pdf

SF Gate Article
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/03/EDG5LE1...1.DTL%2

Wall Street Journal Article
http://www.chelationtherapyonline.com/technical/p112.htm

FDA EPA Advisory:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html

Mercury in Sushi Tuna
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23sushi.html

http://www.mercurypolicy.org/new/documents/TunaReleaseFinal012604.pdf

Yahoo Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080616170817AAkENkI
"my friend's co-worker eats at least one can of tuna a day...and her
sons (3 of them) are all mildly retarded. she now thinks it's the tuna
cans."

Based on the above info this is probably so. This is serious! How
many people have suffered or will suffer out of ignorance? We need
labeling now!

On Aug 29, 10:35 pm, Lars Eighner <use....RemoveThis@larseighner.com> wrote:
> In our last episode,
> <52b1d928-8036-451c-9888-9babe533e....RemoveThis@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, the
> lovely and talented g....RemoveThis@rock.com broadcast on alt.politics.democrats:
>
> > All dangerous canned tuna fish should carry warning labels just like
> > "ingredients" and "nutrition facts." There is currently no way
> > someone would know that eating normal canned tuna fish could have
> > serious health effects especially in children, as the below SF Gate
> > and Wall Street Journal Articles demonstrate.
> > According to the FDA, white albacore is so dangerous that an adult may
> > eat only one 6 ounce can per week! But nowhere on the can does anyone
> > find this advisory! An average person might eat as many as 7 or more
> > cans per week as white albacore is otherwise as good of a protein
> > source as chicken! They would thus have 700% the safe limit.
>
> Albacore is so expensive that just about anyone who had the money to buy it
> could afford and would prefer more variety in the diet. Poor people eat
> yellow fin seven days a week. Only rich people buy albacore. If they want
> to poison themselves, I say godspeed.


White Albacore costs about $1.69 a 6 oz can and is frequently on sale
for $1.25 a can or less. Light tuna is around $1.00 a 6 oz can and is
frequently on sale for .75 a can or less (though if you clicked the
provided links they show light tuna has 1/3 the mercury). I don't
know about yellow fin or if it comes canned, but if you go the mercury
calculator, it shows it has just as much mercury as white albacore:
http://www.gotmercury.org/article.php?list=type&type=75 . I don't
know where poor people are buying yellow fin though, do you mean the
whole fish? In any case the mercury calculator shows:

Canned white albacore has .353 ppm
Yellow fin has .325 ppm
Canned light albacore has .118 ppm
Fresh/Frozen Salmon has .014 ppm, and so is relatively safe as are
many other fish not listed