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Did you know pregnant women that consume twice as much mercury as the FDA recommends are still protected by a 500 percent cushion? The mercury-in-fish dietary guidelines issued by the Food and Drug Administration are only for pregnant women, women who are planning to become pregnant, and young children. And even then, the FDA's guidelines are overly cautious. The FDA has issued no consumption advice about the amount of fish that's safe for older kids, teens, men, post-menopausal women, and women who don't plan to become pregnant. In the FDA's own words, its mercury guideline "was established to limit consumers' methyl mercury exposure to levels 10 times lower than the lowest levels associated with adverse effects." So even if a pregnant woman consumed twice as much mercury as the FDA's recommended limit, she would still be protected by a 500-percent cushion. This calculator uses the Environmental Protection Agency's "Benchmark Dose Lower Limit" (BMDL) to demonstrate the actual dose of mercury in tuna and other fish that's completely safe for consumption. Fishy calculators run by the Environmental Working Group and other scaremongering organizations use the EPA's "Reference Dose" instead -- which is this BMDL divided by ten. So the amount of mercury that might be harmful is actually ten times greater than the amount the U.S. government (and a growing activist chorus) wants you to consider "unsafe." The Food and Drug Administration's advice to young children and women of childbearing age is roughly equivalent to the EPA's Reference Dose, which is by far the most restrictive in the world. The standards adopted by the Canadian government, the World Health Organization, and the British Food Standards Agency are 4.7 times higher than what the EPA permits. http://www.fishscam.com/mercuryCalculator.cfm If you want to see how much tuna or other fish you can eat per week before you have to worry about mercury use the calculator on this site vs. your body weight.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Yep just had this conversation with pregnant wife last week. Thanks for calculator, Cecil.
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CB1 : They (the growing activist chorus) don't care if we starve to death or freeze or get sick because of the lack of food or energy , they just don't want any cases of mercury poisoning.
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Cecil,
Don't even know where to start with this. Two things you may find humerous.
1) We were working on a municipal project a couple years ago that included a fish cleaning station. The station was to include a grinder for fish guts. Turned out that the rinse water could not be returned to the river because it would possibly exceed the allowable mercury limit. Had to include a holding tank and be disposed as solid waste. I'm not sure if it was actually built.
2) the new mercury detection limits require specialized sampling techniques that require two people (dirty hands & clean hands). Both have to wear face masks because the detection limits are so low that your breath will contaminate the samples if you have amalgam fillings.
It keeps me employed
My wife is not eating tuna either
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