Sushi? Hold the Tuna

For a little over a year now, Geezer’s loving wife has declined to eat tuna sushi, generously offering all tuna slices to her grateful husband. Now he knows why. A New York Times study of tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants found so much mercury that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency. The New York Times reports that sushi from 5 of the 20 places had mercury levels so high that the Food and Drug Administration could take legal action to remove the fish from the market. Experts consulted by the paper warned that while these samples were gathered in New York City, similar results would likely be observed elsewhere.
Read more in the New York Times.