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...limit is the acceptable limit of safety, which includes a 10-fold safety factor. That's not a risk level. That's the accepted safety level [0.1 mcg of mercury per kg of body weight per day]. That's 10 times lower than where the EPA determined that risk was occurring - which is a prudent safety limit to be certain that there is no risk. So, for example, if six pieces of tuna sushi a week would put you at the limit, that means you would have to eat 60 pieces to get to the level where the EPA determined...
Also, it's important to note that the EPA set its safety limit based on the potential risks to infants and newborns, not based on the effects in adults...
...were to limit my food choices to locally produced items, my diet some months would be based on dairy, eggs, chicken and frozen vegetables - not the most healthful or interesting food plan. Farm-to-table advocates might win more converts by focusing less on chastising consumers for purchasing convenient and economical foods and more on making those choices available to all. Sam Manbeck, York, Pennsylvania...
...held in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay and possibly other secret U.S. prisons overseas. Despite a raft of Supreme Court cases designed to obtain the detainees additional legal rights, as many as 100 of them are expected to be tried this spring in military commissions that limit both public disclosure and the latitude accorded lawyers in defending them...
...were to limit my food choices to locally produced items, my diet some months would be based on dairy, eggs, chicken and frozen vegetables?not the most healthful or interesting food plan. And I am keenly aware of the premium I pay at farm stands. Farm-to-table advocates might win more converts by focusing less on chastising consumers for purchasing convenient and economical foods and more on making those choices available to all. Sam Manbeck, YORK...