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Posted AT 4:25 AM EDT on 08/03/07

Fish are up to their gills in mercury

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

So much mercury has accumulated in fish that there should be a worldwide public warning about eating seafood contaminated by the dangerous heavy metal, says a report summarizing the latest scientific evidence on global mercury pollution. The report, compiled by many of the leading academic experts on mercury pollution at a conference last year, is being published today in Ambio, the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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