Kate wrote:
>Tuna contains quite a lot of mercury and other heavy metals (courtesy of
>our contamination of the oceans). Much of this is located in the fat and
>meat but we also know that heavy metals are deposited in bone and other
>body tissues.
Tuna is on the "restricted" list for pregnant and lactating women and
for children because of the mercury (One can of tuna contains more mercury
than any of the themerisol-containing vaccines which were such a hot topic
last year.)

I am very interested in learning more about this. We eat a LOT of tuna:(
Would you mind sharing some references, please?

Norma Ritter, IBCLC
private practice in Big Flats, upstate NY, where we are having a
thunderstorm.
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