Excellent post, Mercury. Thank you very much. I have a difficult question, Mercury. How can Mercury pass to grain? Do plants "eat" poisoning metals too as they eat minerals?
It must be very difficult to know that, it must be a hard research work for scientists. I understand if it is not now yet. Peace and best wishes. Xi On Oct 10, 8:02 pm, "Mercury.Sailor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) -- > New research on mercury levels in fish show that current federal > limits may be too high for consumers' safety - and that the limits > were set based on decades-old data. > > ConsumerWatch tested sushi and supermarket fish and found several > samples of high-end fish like tuna, salmon, swordfish contained above > average levels of mercury and in some cases more than 1 part per > million. That is the legal level set by the FDA. But Bay Area > physician Dr. Jane Hightower says it's not set high enough. > > "It's not protective, especially for people who enjoy to eat fish more > than twice a week," said Hightower, a general practioner who's seen a > number of mercury poisoning cases at San Francisco's California > Pacific Medical Center. > > Hightower makes the case for reducing the current limit in a new book > titled Diagnosis: Mercury. > > The FDA level of 1 part per million is twice the level allowed in > Japan, Europe, and Canada, so Dr. Hightower did some digging to find > out where that number came from. Her search led her to Iraq and a mass > mercury poisoning. In the early 1970s 10,000 citizens died and > 100,000 were brain damaged after eating tainted grain. Saddam > Hussein's regime kept the incident quiet and there was speculation he > ordered the poisoning. > > But afterwards, US government researchers collected data from the > victims to determine how much mercury is safe in our food. Dr. > Hightower interviewed the Iraqi scientist who gave US researchers the > data. > > "The man who gave them all the data was also the man in charge of the > poisoning. I asked him if he would use the data coming out of Iraq in > the scientific reports...if he would use that data to tell his > daughter how much mercury was safe to consume during her pregnancy and > he immediately said, 'No way,'" she recalled. > > http://cbs5.com/consumer/fda.mercury.fish.2.836990.html > > I respect Dr Hightower very much. But I don't buy that Saddam ordered > the poisoning. The contaminated grain came from Mexico. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
