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Article: Eco-watch.(environmental groups claim mercury levels in fish rising)(ettempt to construct fish farm on old oil rig held up in court)(Brief Article)
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- Seafood Business
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Mercury levels disputed
A coalition of environmental groups has urged the Food and Drug Administration to resume testing mercury levels in tuna, swordfish and shark after a report determined that FDA data shows potentially unsafe levels of mercury in those highly consumed species. The FDA stopped testing the fish in 1998. The most recent comprehensive study, the federal government's 1991 food-fish survey, showed the species had mercury levels of less than one part per million. But the environmental groups --including Vermont-based Mercury Policy Project, the Sierra Club and California Communities Against Toxics -- say the FDA's own data shows dangerously high ...
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Article: WORLD'S LARGEST OIL RIG SINKS IN ATLANTIC
United Press International;
March 20, 2001 ;
373 words
... ... International 03-20-2001 World's largest oil rig sinks in Atlantic RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil ... COMTEX) -- The world's largest offshore oil rig, which had been slipping into the sea ... reported. A series of explosions on the oil rig on Thursday resulted in the deaths of ...
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