SHOULD I EAT LESS FISH TO REDUCE MERCURY?
“The average mercury level in a Pacific yellowfin tuna is approaching a level the US EPA considers unsafe for human consumption (0.3 parts-per-million).
Fish are an important source of food for billions of people worldwide and a solution to the problem is not to eat less fish, but to choose fish lower in mercury, as the EPA and FDA jointly recommend.
The ultimate solution to the problem is to control mercury emissions to the atmosphere at their source, which is the aim of the new United Nations Environment Program?s Minamata Convention on Mercury.?
At Image Dental, we advice consuming low mercury fishes (a list is found in our blog post