FDA Draft Report Urges Consumption of Fish, Despite Mercury Contamination - washingtonpost.com

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" If approved by the

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House, the FDA's position would reverse the government's current

policy that certain groups -- women of childbearing years, pregnant

women, nursing mothers, infants and children -- can be harmed by the

mercury in fish and should limit their consumption.

The FDA's recommendations have alarmed scientists at the

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Protection Agency, who in internal memos criticized them as

" scientifically flawed and inadequate " and said they fell short of

the " scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by EPA. "

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