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Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), Bob Schwarz
Published November 1, 2006

A Harvard School of Public Health report says that eating seafood reduces the risks of coronary death by 36 percent, and one of the co-authors calls the risks of environmental contamination greatly exaggerated, The New York Times reports. Environmental groups were quick to attack the Harvard report, saying it read like an advertisement for the seafood industry. The Harvard study downplays the danger of PCB accumulation in fish. Women of childbearing age should not be eating 6 ounces of tuna a week, a level the government allows, Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group told the Times. Ninety percent of women eating that much tuna will exceed the government's safe level for mercury consumption, she added.
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