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He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna
California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings |
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15 May 2006 |
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| He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings California law requires products containing chemicals that could cause reproductive harm or cancer to have warning labels, but a state Superior Court judge has ruled that the law does not apply to mercury-licious canned tuna. Mercury has been shown to slow neurological development, thus the ... |
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| Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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