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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jane Dalton

Activists want tinned tuna banned after toxic levels of mercury found

Oceans activists are calling for tinned tuna to be banned from hospitals, school canteens, care homes and maternity wards after high concentrations of mercury were found in every sample analysed.

They accused public authorities and the tuna industry of “cynical lobbying”, favouring “the economic interests of industrial tuna fishing to the detriment of the health of over hundreds of millions of tuna consumers in Europe”.

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