On Aug 29, 10:35 pm, Lars Eighner
larseighner.com> wrote:>> All dangerous canned tuna fish should carry warning labels just like
>> "ingredients" and "nutrition facts." There is currently no way
>> someone would know that eating normal canned tuna fish could have
>> serious health effects especially in children, as the below SF Gate
>> and Wall Street Journal Articles demonstrate.
>> According to the FDA, white albacore is so dangerous that an adult may
>> eat only one 6 ounce can per week! But nowhere on the can does anyone
>> find this advisory! An average person might eat as many as 7 or more
>> cans per week as white albacore is otherwise as good of a protein
>> source as chicken! They would thus have 700%% the safe limit.
>
> Albacore is so expensive that just about anyone who had the money to buy it
> could afford and would prefer more variety in the diet. Poor people eat
> yellow fin seven days a week. Only rich people buy albacore. If they want
> to poison themselves, I say godspeed.
White Albacore costs about $1.69 a 6 oz can and is frequently on sale
for $1.25 a can or less. Light tuna is around $1.00 a 6 oz can and is
frequently on sale for .75 a can or less (though if you clicked the
provided links they show light tuna has 1/3 the mercury). I don't
know about yellow fin or if it comes canned, but if you go the mercury
calculator, it shows it has just as much mercury as white albacore:
http://www.gotmercury.org/article.php?list=type&type=75 . I don't
know where poor people are buying yellow fin though, do you mean the
whole fish? In any case the mercury calculator shows:
Canned white albacore has .353 ppm
Yellow fin has .325 ppm
Canned light albacore has .118 ppm
Fresh/Frozen Salmon has .014 ppm, and so is relatively safe as are
many other fish not listed
