• Experts: Eat Your Seafood (Without a Side of Scaremongering)
    (7/29/10) In the age of mass media fueled by scary stories, it’s no surprise that environmental activists have been able to turn minuscule levels of mercury in fish into horrifying anti-seafood...

  • Experts to FDA: Time to Update Fish Recommendations
    (5/28/10) We’ve pointed out many times that Americans’ hysteria over trace levels of mercury in fish is just that—hysteria. The health risks from mercury (some of which is all-natural) are vanishingly...

  • Dredging Up Sushi Scares
    (4/21/10) Today the American Museum of Natural History and researchers at Rutgers University with longstanding ties to seafood scare campaigns are reporting the results of some tuna sushi analysis in the...

  • TIME Trawls for Tuna Terror
    (2/24/10) In a story that seems like it was pulled from an apocalyptic CSPI press release, TIME published a list this week of what it claims are the top 10 “most...

  • Fishy Trade Maneuvers
    (2/3/10) Trade wars? Catfish? Vietnam? These are all things we don’t normally talk about, but today they all meet. Trust us. It’s interesting. The domestic catfish industry (largely located along the...

  • The CCF Challenge (Will food and science reporters take the bait?)
    (12/7/09) If you swallow the scary stories anti-food activists are constantly pushing to the media, you might be worrying about trace amounts of mercury in the fish you eat. But new research...



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