Mercury in Tuna

[BabyGravy]

just want to see everyones view on this? should we be concerned

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/di...=1&oref=slogin

[*El Diablo*]

Good read GravyTrain, but if there is fault to find in anything some fcvken asshole with ALOT of time on his hands will!... Whats next? ...

[Garnelek]

Large tuna has a high concentration of mercury....canned tuna is usually small

[abbot138]

Most fish/shellfish has mercury in it. Nature of the beast. Personally I don't give a damn. Its cheap and easy protein....I do know that albacore has more if you want to get picky about it.

[aer_vlad]

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[MuscleScience]

The risk is greatly exagerated.

[Slaiv]

wen i was losing weight, i ate tuna 2-3 a day every day for 4months straight !!!

i swear on my mothers life!!

now that im bulking.... just thinkin about tuna makes me gag a bit... gawd i hate that stuff now !!!!

[aer_vlad]

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[kman]

The risk is greatly exagerated.

Yea what he said

[BabyGravy]

ok cool.... thanks for the input guys

[BrokenBricks]

The World Health Organization (WHO) the EPA and other governmental bodies all have different so called safe consumption guide lines. They don't agree with one another to the tune of a factor of four (The EPA recommends 4 times less than the WHO). What is most telling is that they use a "safety factor" to set these levels. What that means is they find out the level that is known to cause damage to a pregnant lady or a developing infant and basically say "Well if X amount is know to cause damage....lets use a safety factor of 10....we will call 1/10th of X safe...". A safety factor is non-scientific guess that takes real data and just arbitrarily modifies it in a way that gives psychological comfort non grounded with actual experimental verification of validity.

If you *are* pregnant...or if you *are* a toddler...I would recommend avoiding albacore tuna.

If you are paranoid and have deep pockets you can buy Albacore caught by trolling, not nets...which Flipper concerns aside, means you are eating a much younger fish (they tend to be the ones caught on lines vs nets) which means a fraction of the mercury (Mercury levels directly correlate with the age of the fish and its height on the food chain).

You get about 1/4 of the mercury in troll line albacore vs net caught....but you pay for it. Light Tuna is the same mercury content as this troll caught albacore.

[doolo]

I've been eating a can a day for a long time.

[D-Unit 39]

Hey you stole my Avatar!

[IronAdam]

A while back I was having some "issues" which I'll spare you guys from having to read, but anyway I read an article about some guy who got mercury poising from tuna (college kid, low on cash, just like me...), so I got paranoid as hell and ended up seeing a toxicologist who ran a blood test on me. What he found was elevated levels of mercury (measured in ppb), but in his words "nothing to be concerned about". This was at a point when I was eating about 2-3 cans of albacore a day.

I agree with what was posted above, it's only an issue of concern for the very young or pregnant.