Word: tuna
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...Makybe those walls are about to be replaced by paddock fences. Though Boss says he's never seen a horse with her recuperative powers, Makybe was spent after the race. So it seemed fitting that it was on the victor's podium that Santic, the engaging self-made tuna baron from the South Australian fishing town of Port Lincoln, announced to her "20 million owners" that their winner wouldn't race again. The crowd went home lingering over the inevitable comparisons with other track greats - a contest Boss has little time for. "They all have their own stories and they...
When the Food and Drug Administration cautioned last year that women of childbearing age and young children should limit their tuna consumption because of potential dangers from mercury, Americans got the message. Sales in the $1.5 billion tuna industry are down 10% since 2004, and national surveys show that 23% of people are "extremely concerned" or "very concerned" about mercury in fish, up from 15% two years earlier, according to the NPD Group, a market-research firm. The embattled makers of Bumble Bee, StarKist and Chicken of the Sea--which account for 85% of the tuna sold...
...Tuna has run into a hitch in trying to take its campaign nationwide. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)--which regulates such marketing efforts--has been sitting on the proposal for the campaign. The government, which has been criticized by environmental groups for dragging its feet in adding tuna to its seafood health advisories, may be concerned about creating consumer confusion by giving a thumbs-up to the tuna industry's commercials. The OMB declined to comment. "There's a problem with government-approved commercials that imply there is nothing to worry about. It isn't full disclosure," said...
...safe" our attorneys should talk and if it was O.K. with them, it was O.K. with him. So the following week my attorney, Floyd Abrams, spoke with Libby's lawyer, Joseph Tate, and they hammered out the details of the waiver. On Aug. 23, I had a tuna sandwich and gave a deposition in Abrams' Washington office about the conversation. The Wilson part that really interested Fitzgerald was tiny, as I told TIME readers. Basically, I asked Libby if he had heard anything about Wilson's wife having been involved in sending him to Niger. Libby responded with words...
...based on infants’ ability to perceive “novelty,” and is correlated with future IQ. While omega-3 fatty acids may be beneficial to fetuses, Oken incorporated the FDA’s mercury warnings into her recommendation that women eat light canned tuna and white-meat fish, which are low in mercury and high on brain-boosting fatty acids.Oken—who is, ironically, allergic to shellfish—says that while she is not sure if pregnant women will react to her paper by eating more fish, “it?...