10% of tuna at sushi bars unfit to eat, report says
August 31, 2006, Chicago Sun Times… a study that found dangerous mercury levels at 10 top Chicago-area sushi restaurants. Seventy percent of samples exceeded the mercury threshold at which Illinois advises women of childbearing age — and young children — not to have more than one serving a month.
“Toxic Tuna,” a report by Environment Illinois and California-based GotMercury.org, said 10 percent of the tuna sushi samples they tested shouldn’t be eaten by anyone — man, woman or child — because they had more mercury than the FDA’s “actionable level.” That’s the level that would prompt the feds to seize the contaminated fish…more…
The best sushi from a gaijin viewpoint is tuna. It’s the most popular sushi in world and in Japan too. That’s resulted in severe overfishing of tuna, but not to worry. High levels of mecury is accumulating in tuna that occupy the top of the pyramid of the food chain. People who eat too much tuna sushi will poisoned and/or will not be childbearing and voila, the market for tuna will drop and so will overfishing. Isn’t Nature wonderful?
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