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FDA Downplayed Risks for Pregnant Women from Tuna, Documents Show.
Byline: Allen Pusey
Mar. 1--WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration decided to eliminate tuna from a list of fish that posed a risk to pregnant women, even though one of its officials acknowledged that the fish could cause learning disabilities in newborns.
In documents scheduled for release Friday by a Washington-based environmental group, a senior FDA official acknowledged that the agency was reluctant to publicize the risks associated with tuna consumption during pregnancy for fear of "losing" the nation's most popular form of seafood from the national diet.
When the FDA released a long-awaited advisory on methyl mercury in seafood in 2001, tuna was not among four fish listed as posing risks.
For some critics, the FDA documents renew questions about FDA standards for mercury in seafood. Those standards have been criticized by environmental groups, public health scientists and the General Accounting Office as being lax and uninformative.
Specifically, the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization, charges that the…
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