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Group secretly tests mercury in tuna, swordfish.

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Tuna and swordfish collected from some California grocery stores and

sushi restaurants contained mercury levels as much as three times the

threshold that authorizes federal food regulators to pull seafood from

shelves, according to a study by an environmental health group.

And despite pervasive concerns about the toxic heavy metal in fish, not

one of the restaurants and fewer than half of the grocery stores

displayed signs warning consumers about the risks of mercury exposure,

according to GotMercury.org, a public health advocacy group in San

Francisco.

" They are selling food with high levels of mercury - levels the federal

government says are too high for children and pregnant women to eat, "

said Buffy Tarbox, lead author of the research. " And consumers

have no idea. "

But representatives of the $75 billion-a-year seafood industry say the

results are misleading and potentially harmful to U.S. consumers...

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