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Anonymous
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Again, it's not anywhere near enough for you to worry about it, unless you are eating it frequently.
Here's what you need to understand:
1) Mercury is just not that toxic. Yes, I know that various reporters are going crazy talking about how bad mercury is. But it really isn't that bad. I mean, people used to DRINK it for god's sake. And usually nothing happened, but if you did it few times, then you started showing symptoms. If you stopped the exposure, the symptoms went away with time. If you didn't stop, then you got worse and you died. Even deliberately taking mercury on purpose isn't enough to cause acute toxicity, and that's thousands of times stronger than the "standard".
2)The "limits" aren't really limits. The published "safe amount" is catered to the lowest-common-denominator, for constant use, and they have a huge margin of safety. So, if it meets the standards then it's perfectly safe to eat a full portion of it, repeatedly, long term. So, if I can eat 1ppm Dolphin every day, then I can eat 2ppm every other day. Or 3ppm every third day....etc. If it's 10x the limit then it's OK for me to eat it every 10th day. Include the factor of safety, and for a person in reasonably good health, it's probably just fine to eat every 5 days or so, even fairly long term.
You certainly wouldn't want to eat that every day, but once a week? nothing to worry about.
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