meco1999
09-23-2003, 06:57 PM
PCPs are chemicals linked to increased cancer risk. I can't find numbers for how much PCPs are in canned tuna. I'd like to know the numbers for either or both light and albacore tuna. Does anyone know?
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auntjudyg
09-23-2003, 10:44 PM
I think Green Peace has statistics on that on their website.
zip2play
09-24-2003, 08:15 AM
meco,
Are you perhaps referring to PCBs (poly chlorinated biphenyls.) If so, then the largest worry is for fish that spend their early lives in contaminated rivers (like sea bass in the Hudson). The Hudson's PCBs come primarily from GE's dumping of transformer oils over past decades and it lodges in the bottom mud almost forever.
The bigger worry for larger ocean fish like tuna is methyl mercury.
There's a push beginning to get amounts of these contaminants listed on the cans but it might be a long time coming.
Are you perhaps referring to PCBs (poly chlorinated biphenyls.) If so, then the largest worry is for fish that spend their early lives in contaminated rivers (like sea bass in the Hudson). The Hudson's PCBs come primarily from GE's dumping of transformer oils over past decades and it lodges in the bottom mud almost forever.
The bigger worry for larger ocean fish like tuna is methyl mercury.
There's a push beginning to get amounts of these contaminants listed on the cans but it might be a long time coming.
meco1999
09-24-2003, 07:35 PM
Yes, I mean PCBs. How much tuna per week would you say is safe to eat?
zip2play
09-25-2003, 08:03 AM
meco,
You might find this informative: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21247/story.htm
You might find this informative: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21247/story.htm