Sunday, July 10, 2011

Is it safe to eat the Starkist tuna pouches every week?

I usually eat around 2-3 pouches a week of starkist's tuna, but I'm worried about the mercury levels. On their website, they claim: Canned tuna is safe and canned light meat tuna is listed on the EPA/FDA advisory as one of the fish that has very low levels of methylmercury. The trace levels of methylmercury found in canned tuna are far below the 1.0 parts per million (ppm) standard the FDA has set as safe. FDA testing has shown that canned light meat tuna has an average of 0.1 parts per million (ppm) and that Albacore (white meat) tuna has an average of 0.35 ppm. StarKist has appropriate testing procedures in place to ensure that both our light meat canned and white meat canned tuna are well below the FDA limit of 1 ppm. However, apparently Rutgers University did a test and starkist tuna had 10 times more mercury than other brands

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