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May affect developing brain: high mercury levels seen in many freshwater fish; Women of childbearing age said to be at risk.(News)
More than half of all freshwater fish samples in a recent Environmental Protection Agency study contained mercury levels that exceed the limit considered safe in women of childbearing age.
In fact, mercury, which is a neurotoxin that is particularly damaging to the developing brain, was detected in all evaluated samples from the study of fish from lakes in the United States, according to a U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund report publicizing the EPA findings.
The report, "Reel Danger: Power Plant Mercury Pollution and the Fish We Eat," comes on the heels of a March warning by the EPA and the Food and Drug Administration regarding mercury contamination of saltwater fish.
In that report, children and nursing or pregnant women were warned against consumption of more than one average serving of canned albacore white tuna per week due to high levels of mercury found in commercial fish samples, as well as against any consumption of several other types of fish, including shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish.
The latest report addresses the effects that mercury emission from coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources have on freshwater fish, and it describes the first available data from ...
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