date:Mar 12, 2014
The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Mercury Policy Project petitioned FDA in July 2011 to require signs in supermarkets and labels on packaged seafood that give consumers information on the relative amounts of mercury in fish and other seafood.
Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations requires the agency to respond to petitions within 180 days of their receipt, which means a response was due by Jan. 14, 2012. But FDA never responded, so the groups have now filed a lawsuit i