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Love Sushi? It's the New Russian Roulette
Sushi lovers, beware! When it comes to food safety, eating it "has become the new Russian roulette," Reuters reports of a new campaign from the California-based Sea Turtle Restoration Project. Why? It's the high level of mercury in the fish. This cool calculator from gotmercury.org will tell you how much mercury you're ingesting when you eat your favorite kind of fish--from ahi tuna to whitefish.
The group tested mercury levels in the fish served by six top sushi restaurants in Los Angeles. The results? There was so much mercury in the fish that tester Eli Saddler of gotmercury.org warned the food should not be served to the public. Mercury can permanently damage the nervous system in fetuses and may cause temporary memory loss in adults, reports Reuters.
Why should you avoid mercury in fish? WebMD has the answers.
The mercury level in the sushi at those L.A. restaurants was 0.721 parts per million, which is 88 percent higher than the reported Food and Drug Administration level of 0.383 ppm for all fresh and frozen tuna. Some of those samples were so contaminated with mercury that by FDA standards they were unsafe for anyone to eat. Fish that are most notably laced with mercury are big-eyed tuna and blue and yellow-finned tuna, which are also the most popular varieties used in sushi restaurants. Older and bigger fish, such as tuna, have more mercury than smaller fish with shorter life spans, such as salmon and shrimp, which have almost no risk of carrying mercury.
If you love salmon, this news may alarm you. Find out why this favorite fish dish may not be safe to eat with great frequency.
Sushi restaurateurs, such as Nobi Kusuhara, who owns Sushi Sasabune in Los Angeles, insist that sushi is still healthy to eat. "As long as restaurants warn pregnant women and people to eat smaller fish, it is definitely safer and healthier than beef or chicken," Kusuhara told Reuters.
When it comes to seafood, what's safe and what's not? Here's a doctor-approved list.


may cause temporary memory loss in adults. No wonder Sushi likes it so much....:lol:
 
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Japanese eat sushi all the time <DD>SOMEWHAT OVERSTATED In Japan, sushi is considered rather classy and expensive, and good sushi is quite expensive. A small number of Japanese almost never eat sushi, a slightly larger group rarely eat it, a significant number don't like it, and even the large number of Japanese who do like sushi probably don't eat it as often as an American who likes sushi and lives in the US. In short, one should not judge Japanese tastes in food by the proliferation of sushi restaurants in the US. </DD>
 
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Japanese eat sushi all the time </dt><dd>SOMEWHAT OVERSTATED In Japan, sushi is considered rather classy and expensive, and good sushi is quite expensive. A small number of Japanese almost never eat sushi, a slightly larger group rarely eat it, a significant number don't like it, and even the large number of Japanese who do like sushi probably don't eat it as often as an American who likes sushi and lives in the US. In short, one should not judge Japanese tastes in food by the proliferation of sushi restaurants in the US. </dd>
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Be that as it may . . . you cannot cook the mercury out of fish, and they eat a lot more fish than we do:

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Having said that, their higher life expectancy may be mainly a function of lower infant mortality than longer living on the back end, so it might not matter. My view: I'm going to croak anyway, so I'm only going to sweat the stuff that's directly, quickly and obviously harmful. Worrying about everything that's supposed to be a health threat is probably more dangerous than indulging in all bad things in moderation anyway.

Of course, moderation is important: I'm not going to be a damn human thermometer like "SushiChic" either :biggrin:
 
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The group tested mercury levels in the fish served by six top sushi restaurants in Los Angeles. The results? There was so much mercury in the fish that tester Eli Saddler of gotmercury.org warned the food should not be served to the public. Mercury can permanently damage the nervous system in fetuses and may cause temporary memory loss in adults, reports Reuters.
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That's bullshit....wait, what was the question? :wink2:
 
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Older and bigger fish, such as tuna, have more mercury than smaller fish with shorter life spans, such as salmon and shrimp, which have almost no risk of carrying mercury. If you love salmon, this news may alarm you. Find out why this favorite fish dish may not be safe to eat with great frequency.
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This news? The news that mercury in salmon is not an issue? Not so alarming. The news in the link, perhaps...
As long as restaurants warn pregnant women and people to eat smaller fish
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That's a fairly inclusive group. Or does it mean pregnant women and other pregnant people? :confused:
 
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Tina's life was fine, that is until she fell into the deadly romance of raw fish. It started out small, just a tekka maki roll. But then her habit escalated, and now she's knocking over joints in the Asian District. Can Tina be saved?
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