BLOOM CLAIMS THERE IS MERCURY CONTAMINATION IN TINNED TUNA

BLOOM claims there is mercury contamination in tinned tuna. Mercury is in every tin of tuna: that’s the discovery the NGO BLOOM claim to have made when it analysed almost 150 tins taken from five European countries.

In a press release, BLOOM claims:

“Considered by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be one of the ten chemical substances of greatest concern for public health worldwide, on a par with asbestos and arsenic, this neurotoxin poses serious risks to the human body.

“After 18 months of investigation, BLOOM reveals in an exclusive report how, since the 1970s, the public authorities and the powerful tuna lobby have knowingly chosen to favour the economic interests of industrial tuna fishing to the detriment of the health of over hundreds of million tuna consumers in Europe.

“This cynical lobbying has resulted in the setting of an “acceptable” mercury threshold three times higher for tuna than for other fish species such as cod, without there being the slightest health justification for a different threshold.

“The maximum permitted level of mercury in tuna has not been set arbitrarily: it corresponds to the highest levels of contamination in the fish. In other words, the danger threshold was not set to protect human health, but solely to protect the financial interests of the tuna industry. The thresholds, as set by the public authorities in collusion with the tuna lobby, are leading to widespread contamination of the population, with potentially serious health consequences.”

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