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Health Press Release
Familiar Favorites Round Out Seafoods Top 10
October 31, 2014 Washington, DC A slight uptick on overall seafood consumption can be seen in the Commerce Departments latest data, used to calculate the National Fisheries Institutes (NFI) annual To...
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Health Blog
Consumer Reports Strikes Again: Who’s Minding the Misinformation?
Is it Groundhog Day? 'Cause it sure feels like it. Consumer Reports (CR) is at it again with its typical anti-tuna rhetoric. In CRs latest tuna tale, they attempt to spook children. Thankfully, parent...
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Health Blog
The EWG Mercury Conspiracy Lives On
The professional fearmonger, anti-vaccination-conspiracy-theory-pusher, and all-around activist shop that is the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is out today with another addition to their collectio...
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Health Blog
FDA Blasts Consumer Reports Irresponsible Tuna Recommendation
While Consumer Reports gives bad advice to pregnant women about tuna consumption the FDA says consumers should not fixate on mercury:"The Consumer Reports analysis is limited in that it focuses exclus...
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Health Press Release
MEDIA ALERT: Consumer Reports does disservice to pregnant women with absurd tuna guidance
Washington, DC August 20, 2014 Consumer Reports is set to publish a recommendation that pregnant women avoid all canned tuna, advice that flies in the face of more than a decade of independent, peer...
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Health Press Release
MEDIA ALERT: Reporting On Ocean Mercury Level Study
Washington, DC August 7, 2014 Reporters, producers and editors working on stories about newly-released research into the amount of mercury found in the oceans need to be careful and precise about wha...
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Health Blog
Tinfoil Hat Brigade Wants To Be A Resource For Reporters
Its been two weeks since the FDA came out with its new draft guidance for pregnant women on eating seafood and theres been a flood of reporting about it: Wall Street Journal FDA to Increase Calls for...
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Health Blog
Has Trib reporter Hawthorne Joined the Ranks of Jenny McCarthy?
This week the FDA and EPA announced they had evaluated 110 published, peer-reviewed studies and concluded that pregnant women need to eat 4 times as much seafood as they currently do in order to reali...
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Health Press Release
FDA Says Pregnant Women Should Eat At Least Four Times As Much Seafood As They Currently Do
Washington, DC June 10, 2014 New advice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based on a decades worth of progressive, published science, clears the water on outdated seafood guidance for p...
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Sustainability Blog
In case you came across yesterdays Farm Raised vs. Wild-Caught Fish headline on NorthJersey.com, let us save you some valuable time by summing it up: all fish, farm-raised or wild-caught, are a health...