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Article: FDA announces Foods Advisory Committee to meet on methyl mercury in seafood.
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- March 4, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-4 March 2002-US FDA: FDA announces Foods Advisory Committee to meet on methyl mercury in seafood (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it will soon schedule a meeting of its Foods Advisory Committee to review issues surrounding methyl mercury in commercial seafood. This review will include a re-examination of FDA's most recent Consumer Advisory, issued in January 2001 and revised in March 2001, for pregnant women and women of child-bearing age who may become pregnant.
The advisory recommended that these women should avoid eating the four fish species with ...