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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:40 AM
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New warning for canned tuna


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0606060139jun06,1,2571963.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true


Mercury risk for pregnant women too high, Consumer Reports says


The chance that canned tuna will contain high levels of mercury is great enough that pregnant women should never eat it, according to new recommendations from a leading consumer group.

Officials at Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, said they decided to recommend a tuna-free diet for pregnant women based on a Tribune investigative series on mercury in fish and the latest testing by the Food and Drug Administration.
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that says it all
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:41 AM
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1. Now what about powdered milk?
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:42 AM
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2. LOL. I was thinking the same thing.
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Debau2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:44 AM
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5. I missed this
What is wrong with powdered milk?
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:51 AM
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6. I think it was FEMA came out and said...
Everyone should stock up on can Tuna and Powder milk and stash it under the bed in case of emergency. I kid you not! LOL
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Debau2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:52 AM
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7. Ok...I remember that!
I am a vegetarian, so I was struggling on what to stock up with!!
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:22 PM
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12. Peanut Butter?
If Jif has animal byproducts, I'm sure Whole Foods has some suitable alternative that doesn't.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:30 PM
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16. Canned beans and corn.
Lima beans and corn together make a complete protein.
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Debau2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 01:41 PM
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19. But now wait!
I can't be un-American and not stash what the govt tells me too, so peanut butter, and canned veggies would be just way to liberal for me! :bounce: :rofl:
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:42 AM
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3. Lovely. Brought to us by Corporate America.
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Che_Nuevara Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 11:42 AM
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4. Someone told me that
any women between 16 and 35 aren't supposed to eat fish more than like twice a month.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:00 PM
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8. I don't understand that....
what about places like Japan where fish is the major source of protein? Yet their cancer rates are lower per capita and I while I don't have any hard data to back this next statement up, I don't think they have a big issue with birth defects caused by high levels of mercury. And yet I can't imagine their fish would contain a significantly lower amount of Mercury. :shrug:

Then again, I'm not exactly an expert on fish...or mercury.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:15 PM
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10. Mercury is not a carcinogen...
It is a poisonous heavy metal. Symptoms include birth defects, ataxia, sensory disturbance in the hands and feet, damage to vision and hearing, weakness, and in extreme cases, paralysis and death.
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Mend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:28 PM
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13. some believe it also is implicated in the huge rise in ADD
and autism and childhood bipolar I.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:29 PM
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15. And that would be consistant with its other effects. nt
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:11 PM
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9. Don't worry...
...almost ALL of the tuna have been caught. The seas will soon be free of them!
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:20 PM
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11. Does this include the new packaging--without fluid, in flat airtight packs
And what about store-bought fresh tuna?
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:28 PM
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14. All tuna have Mercury in their flesh.
Edited on Wed Jun-07-06 12:29 PM by benburch
So the fluid does not matter.

Note, folks, that only some of this is human pollution; Fish have always bioconcentrated mercury that naturally occurs in seawater, and large, long-lived fish like tuna concentrate the most. But in ages past people usually did not eat tuna or other huge open water fish. Largely people ate codfish that don't live so long and so do not concentrate so much of the poison. But we fished out all of the cod. There are literally none left. We ate them.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:34 PM
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17. In Hawaii pregnant women are told not eat FRESH tuna.
Edited on Wed Jun-07-06 12:36 PM by Jara sang
From these waters. I don't know why they said "canned" tuna in the above article. It's not like the tuna was contaminated after it was caught.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060124/NEWS01/601240344/1001/NEWS
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:40 PM
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18. ALL tuna concentrate Mercury.
Those in more polluted waters are the worst of course. But with canned tuna, how can you know what waters they were caught in? You cannot.
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