Canned tuna often contains higher sodium levels than fresh fish, but both offer several nutrients. Remember to look for fish ...

Compared to most other seafood, the flesh of tuna has relatively high levels of mercury. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimate suggests that tuna contains between 0.126 and 0.689 parts per ...

Levels of mercury persist in tuna, decades after pollution controls were introduced to limit emissions, scientists say. The poisonous element is released by mining and burning coal and ends up in ...

Bloom said all of the 148 tins of tuna randomly selected in Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Spain it tested at an independent laboratory "were contaminated with mercury". The group, which ...

After analyzing approximately 150 cans of tuna collected from five European countries, the French nonprofit organization BLOOM announced that they were all contaminated to some extent by mercury.

It means that for 50 years a mercury threshold three times higher for tuna than for other fish species such as cod was set as “acceptable”, “without there being the slightest health ...

Activists are demanding an outright ban on serving tinned tuna in hospitals and schools after toxic levels of mercury were detected in the store-cupboard favourite. The environmental campaigners ...

Oceans activists are calling for tinned tuna to be banned from hospitals, school canteens, care homes and maternity wards after high concentrations of mercury were found in every sample analysed.