More Testing of Seafood to Address Mercury Concerns
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Some restaurants and retailers around the country have started testing the fish they sell in response to concerns about the amount of mercury in seafood.
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A U.S. study suggests the impact and extent of mercury pollution in wildlife is much greater than previously thought.
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The nation's largest gold-producing state is being asked to investigate whether mercury emissions from its mines are contaminating area fisheries.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials are again examining what's known -- and what's still to be learnedÃÂ -- about the safety of a mercury mixture that's stirred controversy since dentists began using it to fill cavities in the 1800s.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c49800)  has announced the addition of Protecting the Marine Environment From  Land-Based Sources of Pollution to their offering.
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Earlier this month, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection ordered a statewide fish consumption advisory because fish contain toxic levels of mercury.
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Farmed salmon have been found to accumulate much higher levels of chemical flame retardants than their wild counterparts, raising alarm that they might pose an increased cancer risk.
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Some chemicals should be re-assessed after new evidence shows they accumulate in the food chain, scientists say.
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A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the U.S. government's standard advice to limit seafood while pregnant.
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Amid warnings that global seafood stocks could dry up by 2048, the state acts to guard its waters.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 20--Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Monday that he will finance a major study of mercury and its toxic effects on Virginia's environment and public health.
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(CP) - New antibiotic-resistant pathogens, airborne mercury and urban sprawl are threatening the health of the Great Lakes and millions of people who live around the bodies of fresh water, a report to the Canadian and U.S. governments concludes.
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Some children may have an inherited weakness that may predispose them to develop autism when exposed to mercury from fish or other sources, an environmental group said on Monday.
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Each day at 4 p.m., the trawlers come back, alive with giant bass, mackerel and squirming eels, at the end of a food chain that links family dinner tables to poisons in the sea. Besides mercury which can damage the brains of fetuses and young children and can affect healthy adults, there are PCBs, dioxins and flame retardants with unknown long-term effects.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 -- A mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines does not raise the risk of neurological problems in children, concludes a large federal study that researchers say should reassure parents.
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Farmed seafood has now joined tires, toothpaste and toy trains on the list of tainted and defective products from China that could be hazardous to a person's health.
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An environmental action group urged  the European Union on Tuesday to boost testing on chemicals and  halt pollution in the Baltic Sea because the fish there are so  toxic.