Consumer advocates warn of ‘colossal risk to public health’ as authorities accused of agreeing to high threshold ...

Consumer advocates warn of ‘colossal risk to public health’ as authorities accused of agreeing to high threshold ...

Environmental NGOs Bloom and Foodwatch have sounded an alarm over dangerously high levels of mercury in canned tuna across ...

Pregnant women are being warned to limit the amount of tuna they eat amid fears that their babies could suffer mercury poisoning. The alert over contaminated fish also extends to breast-feeding ...

The toxic metal which has links to cancer, poses a particular risk to pregnant women and children. Tests carried out on the ...

Methylmercury, which poses a particularly serious risk to pregnant women and children and has links to cancer, was found in ...

Recent studies have found that nearly all tins of tuna purchased in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK were ...

Nearly all tins of tuna purchased in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Britain, and part of a study, "were contaminated with ...

And World Health Organisation says pregnant women ... As tuna — and other predators or longer-living species like sharks or swordfish — are higher up the food chain, they eat smaller fish ...

Methylmercury, which is particularly hazardous to pregnant women and children and ... set the mercury limit in tuna at 1 mg/kg and 0.3 mg/kg for other fish like cod. However, the joint study ...

Experts have warned that tins of tuna that are being sold in the UK could contain a toxic metal. Methylmercury, which poses a serious risk to pregnant women and children and has links to cancer, has ...