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Article: Study records elevated mercury levels in fish consumers
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- AP Worldstream
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- October 20, 2002
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Dateline: BURLINGTON, Vermont
A study of Californians who eat a lot of fish shows 89 percent wound
up with elevated mercury levels in their bodies.
The research, presented Saturday by San Francisco internist Dr. Jane
Hightower at a symposium of environmental health experts in Vermont,
is one of the first studies to document mercury levels in Americans
who eat more fish than the Environmental Protection Agency recommends.
Doctors are increasingly interested in the possible risks of eating
too much mercury-tainted fish, and the Environmental Protection Agency
and the Food and Drug Administration are trying to better inform the
public about the subject.
It is a thorny ...