Mothers, Babies and Mercury

The Report:

Sandy Szwarc. The Tech Center Station. April 16, 2004

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The Purpose of this Report:
In an attempt to balance what the author believes are the true risks and benefits of eating fish, she discusses some of the recent U.S. health advisories about eating fish

Some Background, Methods, Results, Caveats, and Other Select Points:

• This is not a peer-reviewed, scientific paper.
• This report was first distributed on April 16, 2004.
• The author reviews some parts of the two, large, ongoing studies of people eating mercury-contaminated fish:
  
  1. The Faroe Islands Study led by Harvard University researchers; and
  2. The Seychelles Islands Study led by University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry researchers.
     
• The author then discusses some of the significant, basic differences between these two, large, mercury-contaminated fish eating studies that cause so much confusion among regulators, industry, and the general public. The author continues by pointing-out that comparing results from the Faroe Islands mercury-contaminated fish eating study with the Seychelles Islands mercury-contaminated fish eating study is to compare apples with oranges.

A Bottom Line:
The author believes that American women are not exposed to methylmercury levels that endanger their newborn children.

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Mothers, Babies and Mercury. The Tech Center Station. April 16, 2004.
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