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Mercury Levels in Tuna Haven't Budged in the Past Five Decades

Mercury Levels in Tuna Haven’t Budged in the Past Five Decades

By Matthew Kadey, MS, RD / September 16, 2024

The popular canned fish and sushi staple has the same level of mercury despite efforts to reduce pollution. It’s not easy to drain toxins from our food supply. An analysis of nearly 3,000 tuna samples caught in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans between 1971 and 2022 revealed stable mercury concentrations in tuna during those…

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