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Newsbriefs - Tuna Limits in Pregnancy

New York Newsday, Ellen Yan
Published July 25, 2002

Pregnant women should limit consumption of tuna fish, a Food and Drug Administration panel recommended yesterday in a bid to balance concerns about mercury poisoning with the need for a healthy diet. The FDA's food advisory panel stopped short of calling for pregnant women to cut tuna from their diets entirely, as it has done for swordfish, shark, king mackerel and tilefish due to concerns that they may contain enough methyl mercury to damage fetal development. To view the rest of this article, please visit www.newsday.com.
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