Mothers and children would be encouraged to eat unsafe levels of
toxic tuna and swordfish and never warned about high levels in
mercury in fish under a last-minute effort to do away with
public health advisories for mercury in fish by the Bush's Food
and Drug Administration (FDA). West Coast women and others who
already have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood would no
longer receive any public health warnings about how eating
mercury-laden fish could harm their children and unborn babies.
See the article and documents at Environmental Working Group. is
outrageous and another last minute attempt by the Bush
Administration to enrich its big-business friends, in this case
'Big Tuna' by ignoring science at the public's expense," said
Teri Shore of the GotMercury.org, a project of Turtle Island
Restoration Network of Forest Knolls, CA. "If we need to go to
Court over this, we are prepared to do so." new research and
bowing to tuna and swordfish industry false claims that eating
mercury in fish is harmless to