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FDA Should Ban High Mercury Tuna From U.S. Market, as Canada Requires, According to Advocates

Published in FDA Law Weekly, March 22nd, 2007

Following reports that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will not allow sales of high mercury canned tuna into the Canadian market, a mercury watchdog group is calling on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to do the same.

"FDA's own testing indicates that some albacore canned tuna has very high mercury levels comparable to those found in Canada," said Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project. "However, the agency has done nothing to prevent high mercury tuna from ending up in our children's sandwiches or our dinner plates."

A recent national news report in Canada indicated that 8 out of 60 cans of albacore tuna exceeded the...

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