Watch Your Fish

Fish with Highest and Lowest Mercury Levels

Highest Lowest
tilefish
swordfish
mackerel
shark
white snapper
tuna		 salmon
flounder
sole
tilapia
trout
Source: Mercury levels in seafood species. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Seafood, May, 2001.

Higher levels of mercury found in mothers who eat more fish have been associated with birth defects, seizures, mental retardation, developmental disabilities and cerebral palsy. This is mostly the result of women having eaten fish when they were pregnant. Scientists believe that fetuses are much more sensitive to mercury exposure than are adults, although adults do suffer from varying degrees of brain damage from fish consumption.

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