FDA Inactive on Toxic Mercury Levels? - Jane Hightower

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/09/Diagnosis_Mercury_Money_Politics_and_Poison

Dr. Jane Hightower, author of Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison, reads the FDA response to reporter Sue Kwon, who documented a significant increase of mercury in her blood after twenty days of eating tuna. The FDA's "action level" for mercury toxicity does not require the agency to actually take any action.

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San Francisco physician Dr. Jane Hightower is acknowledged by many to be the first doctor in the United States to recognize low-level mercury poisoning in patients who regularly ate certain kinds of fish. Hear firsthand about competing interests, varying government standards, and what it took to get high levels of mercury in the blood seen as a problem. - California Academy of Sciences

Jane M. Hightower, M.D., is the author of Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician in San Francisco, California.

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[powerlunchproduction]

Excellent video. Thanks for posting!

[hoo555hoo]

Kinki University in Japan solved the mercury problem of tuna.

They have succeeded in complete culture of bluefin tunas. So we never need to get tunas from sea with their way.

The new way market of safety tuna is growing in Japan now.

[yoshyoka]

This can only happen in the third world and the US...

[wildpeachatl737]

But you should be able to eat tuna without such effects, as they don't normally contain mercury.

I don't which one to be more fearful of, vaccines or tuna. The data that you quote seems to indicate that there is a very high risk of contamination and my math may be off, but the levels are way over what's deemed acceptable.

[wildpeachatl737]

Sorry, I occassionally suffer from an irony deficiency...

[basszack]

this shouldn't surprise anyone.the fda haven't been living up to there responsibilities for a long long time.

[Slug99]

EPA recommended levels are 0.1 micrograms per kilogram (or 2 pounds).

Now depending on what kind of tuna you're getting the concentration in mercury can be anything from 20-70 micrograms per gram. So if one eats low mercury eating about 15 ounces of tuna is about the same as getting vaccinated once. The scare in japan was mainly because some people eat tuna very regularly and pregnant mother eating regularly it could actually damage their child much like a mother who drinks alcohol.

[openyourmind678]

Read what I said carefully. How would they make any money if they released drugs that killed people? don't you think people would notice...

[wildpeachatl737]

Ummm...you lost me there. Wouldn't a company want to release harmful drugs when they're not regulated by any agency?

I place no faith in any company or industry to self-regulate as profit margins will always win out over the public's interest.

[openyourmind678]

well the main reason pharmaceutical companies release harmful drugs is because they're told the FDA has to regulate them. If there were no FDA, pharmaceutical companies with self-regulate because it would be in their best interest to maintaining their credibility.