American tuna fishers offer own bodies to challenge mercury

US albacore tuna fishermen have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test them and their wives and children for side effects from methylmercury. The move is seen as a strategic challenge against scientific reports on the dangers of eating tuna, which threaten the tuna consumer market. The 400-strong ...

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