Factoid/2003/07/01
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United Nations Cuts in Half the Recommended Maximum Consumption Levels of Shark and Swordfish
- "The World Health Organization in Geneva and the Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome cut by half the recommended intake limits for expectant mothers of methylmercury, a toxic chemical found especially in predator fish. A group of experts, known by its initials JECFA, cut the provisional tolerable weekly intake, or PTWI, of methylmercury from 3.3 micrograms per kilo of body weight to 1.6 micrograms on the basis of new information on the effects of the chemical, the most toxic form of mercury." - excerpt from Planet Ark article at http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21342/story.htm
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