The New York Times reports today "Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them,a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency."


This is a small study ......for full article go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23sushi.html

In the new ad for Loblaws, Galen Jr talks babytalk to a montage of highchairs as he tries to sell PC organic baby food......couldn't his writer get the facts right? Galen Jr throws in that old canard -- no chemical pesticides.....

First of all, chemical can be organic, the line should have read either "synthetic" or "inorganic"

But most of all, it should not have been written at all. Synthetic pesticide residue is dismissed as a health hazard because it's so small and second, we eat many more organic pesticides which are just as potentially poisonous as synthetic pesticides in the form of natural vegetables.....like Brussel Sprouts.

So if Galen's worried about pesticides he's worrying about the wrong kind.