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  • August 2008

    • Women's Mercury Levels Tied to Region, Income

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 30, 08 8:31 PM CDT

      Women's Mercury Levels Tied to Region, Income

      (Newser) - American women are afflicted by high Mercury levels depending on where they live and how much they earn, a new study says. Northeasterners are worst off, with a 20% chance of high mercury, 10 points higher than the national rate. Midwesterners eat less seafood and had lower levels overall, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      fish  • Midwest  • sushi  • Northeast  • mercury  • fetal health

  • February 2008

    • Japanese Dolphin Cuisine: Cruelty or Culture?

      CNN  |  Feb 12, 08 10:35 AM CST

      Japanese Dolphin Cuisine: Cruelty or Culture?

      (Newser) - One activist calls the Japanese city of Taiji "ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth," but locals want him and his cohorts to mind their own business. Residents of Taiji have been eating dolphin meat for hundreds of years and say they have as much right to do so as Westerners have to eat beef, CNN reports. More »

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      Japan  • dolphin  • mercury

    • Court Upbraids EPA for Mercury Cap-and-Trade

      Reuters  |  Feb 8, 08 5:40 PM CST

      Court Upbraids EPA for Mercury Cap-and-Trade

      (Newser) - A court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by instituting a “cap-and-trade” program for the emission of mercury and other toxic chemicals. Reuters reports that the federal court's ruling means coal-fired plants will all have to invest in mercury-reduction equipment in order to adhere to emissions standards. More »

  • January 2008

    • 'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      Associated Press  |  Jan 27, 08 5:35 AM CST

      'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      (Newser) - New Yorkers may be in the throes of a sushi scare after the Times reported on the dangerous mercury levels in tuna, but the Japanese aren't batting an eyelid. One official's biggest concern was that the controversy would ignite "groundless rumors" about a healthy food, AP reports. "We're not talking about eating 10 tuna sushi every day—in which case I might be a little worried," said one sushi lover. More »

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      health  • Japan  • fish  • tuna  • sushi  • mercury

    • High Mercury Levels Found in Tuna Sushi

      New York Times  |  Jan 23, 08 7:50 AM CST

      High Mercury Levels Found in Tuna Sushi

      (Newser) - A quarter of tuna sushi sampled in New York contained mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action to ban the fish from the market, reports the New York Times .  Although the sushi was collected in New York City, experts believe samples elsewhere would be similar. “No one should eat a meal of tuna” more than once about every three weeks, said the professor who analyzed the samples. More »

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      FDA  • tuna  • sushi  • mercury

    • Vaccine Mercury Ruled Out as Autism Cause: Study

      Reuters  |  Jan 8, 08 5:45 AM CST

      Vaccine Mercury Ruled Out as Autism Cause: Study

      (Newser) - Mercury in vaccines, long suspected as a cause of autism, has been ruled out in a new study of children suffering from the brain disorder.  Most mercury was removed from the vaccine preservative thimerosal  in 2001—but instead of autism rates falling, they continued to rise in California, according to the study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry . More »

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      autism  • Department of Health  • mercury  • thimerosal

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