FDA EPA.. Mercury and Fish.
The Environmental Protection Agency has blasted the FDA’s analysis of the benefits and risks of fish consumption. The opinion is “not a product (we) should endorse,” the EPA said, “as it does not reach the level of scientific rigor.”
In the last days of the Bush administration, FDA had drafted a report that looked towards setting clear guidelines for consumers who were wondering whether the risks of fish consumption - namely, high levels of mercury and other heavy metals - outweigh the benefits, such as increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids and improved cognitive function. For its results, the FDA compared two recommendations - that people eat more fish of all kinds; and that people limit their fish consumption and eat only low mercury fish on the rare occasion that they do eat seafood. So in short choose variety of fish.. Or slow it down.
The agency did not look at large diet of only low mercury fish. With the data set excluded, the FDA concluded that the brain damaging effects of the mercury were outweighed by the benefits of fish consumption(Thats pretty ridiculous haha cause that’d defeat the purpose of eating it pretty much). The agency appeared set to urge people to stop monitoring their fish consumption, and implicitly tell them not to worry about which fish is higher in mercury.
The draft report was so bad and accused of faulty science that the FDA had released a new report. Although the EPA concluded that the report was “essentially unchanged, and *pause* (still) scientifically flawed. Meaning faults/and or lies.
Among the flaws cited by the EPA was the FDA’s reliance on a 22 year old study from Iraq that measured mercury damage based on the age at which children began to speak - the true ages of many children in the study, were not said. The FDA relied on mercury research that “had been completely abandoned by the scientific community as a basis for risk assessment for more than a decade,” the EPA concluded.
The FDA is quite inefficient being not only the mercury in fish.. but psychiatric drugs. They definitely need to be regulated.
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