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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 |
Daily Grist |
| 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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Fin and Dandy
Low-mercury fish label debuts in Northern California |
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28 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Fin and Dandy Low-mercury fish label debuts in Northern California If you love fish but avoid it because you're worried about high mercury content, you may be in luck -- if you live in Northern California, that is. Pacific Seafood Group, a large fish wholesaler, has partnered with Holiday Quality Foods, a chain of 19 grocery stores in rural Northern California, to test-market fish labeled as low-mercury. Fish to be s ... |
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| Topics: California, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Toxic Femmes
SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish |
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14 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Toxic Femmes SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish Like many of their land-bound counterparts, male fish off the coast of Southern California are developing female sex characteristics. In the fishes' case it goes beyond metrosexuality -- we're talking ovary tissue in the testes (ew). Researchers strongly suspect sewage laced with human-made hormone-disrupting chemicals. Two separate studies, one in the field and one ... |
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| Topics: California, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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