Is it time to stop eating tuna?

In May, Japan continues to crack down on tourists attending Tokyo's renowned tuna auctions, however the problem might resolve itself once tourists and sushi lovers around the world learn that sushi-grade tuna has more mercury than canned tuna.





Researchers at the American Natural History Museum's (ANHM) Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and Rutgers University have found restaurant sushi-grade tuna has more mercury than canned tuna by using fish DNA barcoding published in the April 21 early online edition of the journal Biology Letters.


In an ANHM announcement, Jacob Lowenstein, a researcher in the study said, "we found that mercury levels are linked to specific species. So far, the U.S. does not require restaurants and merchants to clarify what species they are selling or trading, but species names and clearer labeling would allow consumers to exercise greater control over the level of mercury they imbibe."



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Tuna and dolphin!!! I would recommend everyone to see the film "The Cove", which not only shows the wholesale slaughter of dolphins in a small fishing town in Japan but which also shows that the higher up the food chain the animal then the more concentration of mercury in its body.b The film alleges a news and information imbargo by the Japanese Government in collaboration with the Japanese media, hiding from the Japanese people what is going on in a small fishing town in Japan and the effects that the extremely high concentrations of mercury are having, and are likely to have, on Japan's children. The film is a documentary but could quite easily have been made into yet another big business rules, conspiracy-style, fiction based on fact. movie.