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Mozaffarian: No. Overall, the dangers of not eating fish [including tuna] outweigh the small possible dangers from mercury. The recommended amount for adults is to eat one or two servings of fish per week - but probably only 10% to 20% of the population in the U.S. eats sufficient fish. The real danger in this country, the real concern, is that we're not eating enough fish. That is very likely increasing our rates of death from heart disease...
...people who eat a few servings per week or less, don't eat the same fish every time, and then you won't have to worry about whether this one is a little bit higher in mercury or this one is a little bit lower...
...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...
...Average per-person health-care spending in Congo each year...
...Number of people now crossing national borders every second. With 1 billion journeys per year, booming international travel increases the risk of global pandemics...