date:Sep 20, 2012
called Tuna Surprise, MMP's first tests of canned tuna sold to schools assesses the exposure of children to mercury in canned tuna. Here's what it concludes:
- School children should not eat albacore tuna. Albacore or white tuna, according to MMP, contains three times more mercury than light tuna. The report says there is no justification for tripling a child's mercury dose.
- Children weighing less than 55 pounds should consume no more than one tuna meal per month. MMP says the less body we