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Mobile Register: FDA changing its tune on mercury? A story by reporter Ben
Raines gives the first public indication that the US Food and Drug
Administration is changing its approach to evaluating mercury hazards in
fish. If implemented, this change will dramatically lower the level of
mercury contamination that warrants fish advisories, and make the FDA's
warnings consistent with those of the EPA. Now, for example, the FDA
recommends that women and children can eat as much as two cans of tuna each
week without running a health risk. The new standard will acknowledge that
as little as half a can per week will push a child over the acceptable
limit. The limit for a 130-pound woman will be one can per week. Scientists
familiar with past FDA policies describe the new approach as "a sea
change." 4 April 2003.