FDA Stuns Scientists, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers!

[Leftest]

In a truly astonishing betrayal of public safety (even for the FDA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today revoked its warning about mercury in fish, saying that eating mercury-contaminated fish no longer poses any health threat to children, pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants.

Last week, the FDA declared trace levels of melamine to be safe in infant formula. A few weeks earlier, it said the plastics chemical Bisphenol-A was safe for infants to drink. Now it says children can eat mercury, too. Is there any toxic substance in the food that the FDA thinks might be dangerous? (Aspartame, MSG, sodium nitrite and now mercury...)


http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000622_mercury_FDA_fish.html

[Phred42]

1. Holy Crap!

:grr: :nuke:

[WhiteTara]

2. jeremy pivens has toxic mercury poisoning

from eating sushi!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/18/jeremy-piven-quits-broadw_n_151987.html

[NOW tense]

4. so did Stephanie Miller

[Kablooie]

46. But they aren't children or expectant mothers. The FDA didn't say it's ok for normal adults.

[ThomWV]

12. I think a lot of people also have mercury problems from old dental work

Weren't old silver fillings made with mercury?

[leftchick]

17. yes

and they still are though it is an amalgam of four metals. It still creeps me out and If I could afford to replace mine I would.

[ananda]

19. I had my amalgams replaced..

.. and did chelation treatment.

I rarely eat canned fish or even
any fish at all.

[Citizen Number 9]

47. Maybe he has it from Sushi, maybe not.

Apparently Pivens was also taking Chinese Herbal remedies.

Just one Chinese "Herb Ball" can have as much mercury in it as a quarter ton of sushi tuna.

[aquart]

3. Every one of them has to go. Preferably to jail, but unemployment will do.

Not gonna be so easy to get loyalty reward jobs this time around.

[FreakinDJ]

5. What next ? - Melamine Milk Shakes

[NOW tense]

6. As Susan Powder used to say "STOP THE MADNESS"

[NV Whino]

7. I guess I'd better take back the Omega3 fish oil capsuls I just bought

It says the mercury has been filtered out. Maybe I can find some that still have mercury.

[Ezlivin]

8. If it contained 0.00001% of THC from marijuana, ALL fish would be banned immediately

I find it ironic that mercury, melamine and Bisphenol-A are okay to consume but not marijuana.

So how's that Nanny State working out for you?

[independentpiney]

14. It boggles the mind, doesn't it? n/t

[tridim]

9. Idocracy is only a movie, right?

[backscatter712]

31. Next, we'll all be tuning into the Violence Channel...

and watching Ow! My Balls!

Christ, we've still got 29 more days of this shit!

[derby378]

10. I smell CHARGES!!

When Obama takes over, that is.

[Feron]

11. I'll wait for a better source.

Natural News appears to be a woo site. Any site that pushes the autism-vaccine myth is not credible.

[Celebration]

18. here is another source

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6174650.html

EPA scientists blast FDA advice on fish

[acmavm]

13. The degree of maliciousness and deceit in this ruling shows the lack

of any ethics, decency, or character in these people. They need to be isolated from the rest of the planet. Given their own island. Their own mercury infested island. Everywhere they go they can see shimmering, slippery, slimy silver and know that they're not going to suffer any long-term damage from it.

[madeline_con]

15. Seafood lobbyists hard at work in Washington. n/t

[bvar22]

26. I think that in this case, it is the "Clean Coal" lobbyists.

100% of the rivers and lakes in Minnesota (The Land of 10,000 Lakes) were posted with warning against consumption of fish due to mercury contamination (from coal power plants).

Very bad publicity for King Coal.

[madeline_con]

32. Oh, right.! Duh... The fish mongers are happy, too, though.

[Peacetrain]

16. This is insane.. especially with large ocean fish,

shark, tilefish, etc.. insane.. and this is not the only crazy thing that has been going on in the last couple of weeks as far as an attack on the environment by the party in power.

[glowing]

22. What people don't understand about how MUCH more mercury is present

in the larger predator fish. The bio scale works like Earthquakes scale.. each number is multiple more times the previous number.

[Peacetrain]

29. That is so right.. In my less than humble opinion, those large fish should not be

harvested at all.

[glowing]

45. At least not until mercury has been relieved from the atmoshphere and

several generations of fish species have cycled out the mercury. It would take a while though.

[1776Forever]

20. And they wonder why autism has risen so much!

Sick - they are sick!

Now they are saying that there is no link but back in 2005 Robert Kennedy Jr wrote this:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/07/01/autism_mercury_and_politics/

ROBERT KENNEDY JR.
Autism, mercury, and politics

By Robert Kennedy Jr. | July 1, 2005

MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.

Prior to 1989, American infants generally received three vaccinations (polio, measles-mumps-rubella, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis). In the early 1990s, public health officials dramatically increased the number of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations without considering the cumulative impact of the mercury load on developing brains.

In a 1991 memo, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccination programs, warned his bosses that 6-month-old children administered the shots on schedule would suffer mercury exposures 87 times the government safety standards. He recommended that Thimerosal be discontinued and complained that the US Food and Drug Administration, which has a notoriously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, could not be counted on to take appropriate action as its European counterparts had. Merck ignored Hilleman's warning, and for eight years government officials added seven more shots for children containing Thimerosal.

[semillama]

24. ...

:popcorn:

:nuke:

[backscatter712]

34. I'd say thimerosal is ONE of the causes of the autism outbreak.

Just remember, what is thimerosal? A mercury compound.

Keep in mind that we don't get mercury just from vaccine preservatives.

Fish anyone? (as the OP and many others have mentioned...)

Ever use mercury thermometers?

Have fluorescent lights in your house? Ever break one?

The water you drink has mercury in it.

Coal has mercury in it, and when power plants burn it, it goes straight out the smokestack. That's why there's mercury in the water, and mercury in seafood. Hell, every time you draw breath, you inhale a little bit of mercury.

I'm operating under the hypothesis that at least some cases of autism are essentially caused by mercury poisoning, and thimerosal is only one source of mercury.

I'm thinking of adding alpha lipoic acid to my vitamin regimen - on top of being a great antioxidant, it's also a low-level chelator. Something to keep the level of heavy metals in my system down to a tolerable level.

[Leftest]

38. Listen to Robert Kennedy Jr. on this youtube video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLYrSfnsqb0

[peacetalksforall]

21. Fifteen or twenty years ago I wrote to the FDA to receive their published

information on MSG. I assumed I would receive a neutral assessment or at least straight information on the effects and what to do.

It was trash. I got the impression that what they had printed was what the manufacturers wanted to be said.

Little did I know then that the Glutamate Assn was the largest lobbyist at that time in terms of dollar funding.

Little did I know then that lobbyists write documentation and marketing stuff for the Departments of our Government that we rely on.

I never trusted one word the FDA said after my event.

I never trusted the way they spent our money.

What they have just done iS MURDER and THEFT. They have stolen trust. They have stolen a person's right to a fit life. They have stolen and will continue to steal our money to pay the medical bills from those who will suffer and who may have to be housed somewhere.

I read it on DU - someone's statement or quote that theft is at the base of every crime. It's very true.

The FDA executives and the administration who took money to say this (and they don't seem to do anything without money changing hands) are thieves.

We have no one representing us. The honorable people don't have authority.

[Spectral Music]

23. This is extraordinarily bad. We need to let Obama know en masse that we do NOT approve

of this. We need to let him know that we expect him to address this.

[Vinca]

25. Now you can eat mercury-laden fish with your arsenic-laden water.

These people must be getting some big bucks from the seafood industry.

[bmbmd]

27. Fish=

Reverend Moon. Reverend Moon=Fish.

[bmbmd]

28. Delete.

Dupe.

[lonestarnot]

30. San don donia!

[alarimer]

33. For the scientifically ignorant here, only some fish has mercury in it.

Avoid things like king mackerel, shark and SOME tunas and you will be all right.

Basically anything that is a top predator may have mercury in it but other fish are perfectly safe: tilapia, catfish, flounder.

[Tumbulu]

35. Not true for all waters- where I live no fish at all can be eaten due to the high mercury

content in the water. Even those washed up have to be buried. There are old abandoned mercury mines upstream that simply overflow into our watershed. Our watershed is not the only place like this on the earth, so you have to know your seafood sources.

[mzmolly]

36. Well,

at least their now being consistent.

:eyes:

[cascadiance]

37. Free Speech TV has folks talking about clean coal mercury poisoning right now...

Tune in if you have Dish Network.

[Trillo]

39. Makes perfect, if malicious, sense.

The stupider you can make people en-masse, the more parasitism you can practice.

I suppose this kind of "ruling" prevents mercury in fish ever being 'officially considered' in a diagnosis: Can't be the fish in your diet, the FDA has said so, so it must be something else. For example, "Have you seen a psychiatrist lately?" i.e. "neuropsychiatric symptoms (emotional lability, memory impairment, insomnia)."

[surrealAmerican]

40. I guess it's time for a new advertising slogan:

Mercury, because you weren't going to use those brain cells anyway!

[psychmommy]

41. on a local mercury corruption level.

in a small town in south jersey, parents noticed little silver beads in their kids clothing-after picking them up from daycare. someone made a big enough stink about it and the authorities came in. it comes out that the daycare is on top of an old mercury or thermometer plant. this daycare was around for awhile how many toddlers ingested this crap. it is shut down down but it probably won't be cleaned up like our super-fund sites that are still sitting around. couple of generations everyone will forget and something else will be built there and continue to sicken folks. what about the wells in the area? people knew and they allowed the daycare to be housed there. just sickening.

[dysfunctional press]

42. we're china's bitch- whatever chemicals end up in the food they export will be found safe...

for our consumption.

any questions?

[Wednesdays]

43. K and R nt

[KakistocracyHater]

44. gotta LOVE them Family Values

:sarcasm: Real good people need to invade & take over that place, just like they need to do with the Federalist Soc

[Greyhound]

48. OMFG, is there no end to their insanity? n/t

:kick: & R

[kenny blankenship]

49. Republicans are sick in the head.

I followed the link but I don't know if I can believe this story until I see it reported somewhere else, too. It's just too twisted.

[OwnedByFerrets]

50. Tell that shit to Stephanie Miller who was sick for weeks because

of mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi. This report is just fucked up.