Now BAN tinned tuna, activists demand - as toxic levels of mercury are detected in store-cupboard favourite READ MORE: Tinned food favourite is 'colossal risk to public health', say experts By JONATHAN NEAL FOR MAILONLINE Published: 07:56 GMT, 8 November 2024 | Updated: 07:58 GMT, 8 November 2024 e-mail 1 View comments 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 also accuse food safety bodies and tuna firms of 'cynical lobbying' that serve 'economic interests..
. to the detriment of health'. For the past five decades, the mercury threshold has been three times higher for tuna than for other fish 'without the slightest health justification', they added a spokesperson from Bloom, which aims to preserve marine environments.
The calls come after Bloom and consumer-rights organisation Foodwatch published an alarming report that revealed just how pervasive the contamination is. As revealed last week by MailOnline, tests on almost 150 tins purchased in France , Italy , Spain , Germany and Britain, found all contained mercury and 57 per cent exceeded safe limits for many fish. Exposure to the metal can impair brain development, trigger life-threatening lung damage, cancers and can cause birth defects if consumed by pregnant women.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), which considers it a major public health concern, on a pa.
