AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House has given initial approval to a measure requiring fish sellers to post signs warning pregnant women about the dangers of eating fish.
The signs would explain that some fish especially large fish such as swordfish may contain mercury that can cause birth defects.
The bill’s author, Houston Democrat Rep. Jessica Farrar, said mercury can cause learning disabilities, and problems with hearing and eyesight.
Some lawmakers in opposition said signs could discourage people from eating any fish at a time when they are encouraged to eat more.
The bill was approved 99-45.
Japan rescuers search for quake missingRescue teams in Japan pressed their search Sunday for people missing a day after a powerful weekend earthquake killed at least five people and left an…Mom of jailed Briton: ‘My world is crumbling’“My life, my world is crumbling like a pack of cards right before me,” Jane Orobator told CNN in [...]
MORE:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=32513
- Do you have a mercury thermometer?
Mercury is a toxic metal that can pose a risk to laboratory workers and the environment, if released. The US Environmental Protection Agency is workin...
- Mercury Thermometer Exchange Program
As part of DES’s commitment to Pollution Prevention, Waste Minimization, and “Thinking Green” we are reinstating the mercury thermom...
- Government recommends Kansas for biodefense lab – (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON The federal government has recommended a site in Kansas for a new $450 million laboratory to study biological threats like anthrax and f...
- Tests confirm salmonella at TEXAS peanut plant – (Associated Press)
DALLAS — Texas health officials say tests show there was contaminated peanut meal at a plant operated by the company linked to the national salm...
- WASHINGTON: Firm tied to salmonella ran unlicensed Texas plant – (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON — A peanut processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated for years uninspected...
- Mercury from chlor-alkali plants: measured concentrations in food product sugar – (Environmental Health 2009, 8:2)
Mercury cell chlor-alkali products are used to produce thousands of other products including food ingredients such as citric acid, sodium benzoate, an...
- CANADA: Fish mercury labels ruled out – (Calgary Herald)
Even though Canadians want it, Health Canada has no plans to bring in mandatory labelling of mercury in fish, saying it would be “complicated...
- GEORGIA: Salmonella possibly found at Texas peanut plant – (USA Today/Associated Press)
ATLANTA — Private lab tests show there may have been salmonella at a second plant operated by the peanut company at the center of a national out...
- Hurricane Ike warning: Flee or die
Floodwaters were surging ashore along the coastline of Texas’ Galveston Island on Friday as Gulf Coast residents living in the path of Hurricane...
- Musharraf: Bhutto ignored warnings
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has said assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ignored government warnings — and defended himse...
- Mercury, up close: Photos to be unveiled
An U.S. spacecraft was scheduled to beam hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the...
- NEW YORK: Wegmans said now requiring tuna suppliers to test for mercury – (Progressive Grocer)
Wegmans Food Market here has reportedly expanded its safeguards on seafood by requiring tuna suppliers to test for mercury levels in their product.
We...
- TEXAS: Inspector failed to flag salmonella-linked plant – (Associated Press)
DALLAS — A Texas agriculture inspector failed to note that a peanut plant at the center of a national salmonella outbreak was operating without ...
- ABSTRACT: Trial for quality control in Mercury contents by using tail muscle of full-cycle cultured Bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) – (Kawasaki, Ken-Ichi (Journal of Food Protection))
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iafp/jfp/2008/00000071/00000003/art00020
Abstract:
Substantial amounts of mercury are usually present in tuna mu...
- NEW YORK: More testing of seafood to address mercury concerns – (The New York Times)
A number of restaurants and retailers in different parts of the U.S. have, according to this story, started testing the fish they sell in response to ...
- LETTERS: Waiter, is that mercury in my sushi? – (New York Times)
Urvashi Rangan, Senior Scientist and Policy Analyst, Consumers Union, Yonkers, Writes that we welcomed The New York Timess analysis of tuna in New Y...
- NEW YORK: Taking worry off the plate – (The New York Times)
Watching the amount of mercury in your diet does not, according to this story, have to mean avoiding seafood.
You can eat a plate of salmon almost eve...
- 2 more swine flu deaths – (New York Times)
Two additional deaths attributed to swine flu were reported over the weekend, with both victims suffering from other health conditions.
China also rep...
- TEXAS: Mrs Baird’s issues voluntary recall of 4″ buns to due undeclared milk – (U.S. FDA Press Release)
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/baird04_08.html
Fort Worth, Texas — Mrs Baird’s Bakeries announced today that it has voluntarily reca...
- The Founding Fathers drank raw milk, you know – (Kansas City Star)
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/10749
JEFFERSON CITY | Life, liberty and
raw milk?
A couple of press releases regarding proposed milk legislation...
