FDA Issues Belated Health Warning on Mercury Fillings

After decades of insisting that mercury amalgam fillings are perfectly safe, the US FDA makes a U-turn and issues a health warning. 

The FDA web site has dropped its reassuring language from its website, substituting: “Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses.” It adds that when amalgam fillings are “placed in teeth or removed they release mercury vapor”, and that the same thing happens when chewing.

The new warning means that despite consumer suspicions, millions of people have previously been erroneously reassured  into accepting health risks from the amalgam.  These potentially include: heart conditions, Alzheimer’s, high blood pressure, infertility, fatigue disorders and neurotoxic effects on developing children and fetuses.

Found at The Independant

 

Sushi Tuna found to contain very high levels of Mercury

And why I order Eel (Unagi) or Mackerel (Saba).

Recent laboratory tests performed for The New York Times found so much Mercury in tuna sushi that a regular diet of even two or three pieces a week at some restaurants could be a health hazard for the average adult, based on guidelines set out by the Environmental Protection Agency.  Larger, predatory fish, including salmon, accumulate more Mercury than smaller fish such as sardines because they are at the top of the food chain.

In any case, according to the World Wildlife Fund:  Atlantic bluefin tuna, are massively overfished and the spawning stock of Southern bluefin in the Indian Ocean is down about 90%

Found at International Herald Tribune.

Neptune’s Navy

One afternoon last winter, two ships lined up side by side in a field of pack ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. They belonged to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a vigilante organization founded by Paul Watson, thirty years ago, to protect the world’s marine life from the destructive habits and the voracious appetites of humankind. Watson and a crew of fifty-two volunteers had sailed the ships-the Farley Mowat, from Australia, and the Robert Hunter, from Scotland-to the Ross Sea with the intention of saving whales in one of their principal habitats. A century ago, when Ernest Shackleton and his crew sailed into the Ross Sea, they discovered so many whales “spouting all around” that they named part of it the Bay of Whales. (”A veritable playground for these monsters,” Shackleton wrote.) During much of the twentieth century, though, whales were intensively hunted in the area, and a Japanese fleet still sails into Antarctic waters every winter to catch minke whales and endangered fin whales. Watson believes in coercive conservation, and for several decades he has been using his private navy to ram whaling and fishing vessels on the high seas. Ramming is his signature tactic, and it is what he and his crew intended to do to the Japanese fleet, if they could find it.

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