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Eateries Agree to Mercury Warnings
Californians can expect to see signs in hundreds of locations citing risks linked to certain fish.
Published February 5, 2005
More than a dozen restaurant companies, including Cheesecake Factory Inc. and P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc., have settled a lawsuit with the state attorney general by agreeing to warn their California customers of potential mercury exposure from fish, officials said Friday.
The agreement, approved Friday by San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer, is expected to result in warnings being posted in more than 400 restaurants operated by 15 companies named in the lawsuit, which Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer filed in April 2003.
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