News And Headlines

• Activist Fish Report Full of Chum
  (8/30/10) If you thought the activist Environmental Working Group was silly for making hay over Vitamin A, it’s facing some new competition in the “eternally worrisome” department from a group called...
  
  
• Experts: Eat Your Seafood (Without a Side of Scaremongering)
  (7/29/10) In the age of mass media fueled by scary stories, it’s no surprise that environmental activists have been able to turn minuscule levels of mercury in fish into horrifying anti-seafood...
  
  
• Experts to FDA: Time to Update Fish Recommendations
  (5/28/10) We’ve pointed out many times that Americans’ hysteria over trace levels of mercury in fish is just that—hysteria. The health risks from mercury (some of which is all-natural) are vanishingly...
  
  
• Dredging Up Sushi Scares
  (4/21/10) Today the American Museum of Natural History and researchers at Rutgers University with longstanding ties to seafood scare campaigns are reporting the results of some tuna sushi analysis in the...
  
  
• TIME Trawls for Tuna Terror
  (2/24/10) In a story that seems like it was pulled from an apocalyptic CSPI press release, TIME published a list this week of what it claims are the top 10 “most...
  
  
• Fishy Trade Maneuvers
  (2/3/10) Trade wars? Catfish? Vietnam? These are all things we don’t normally talk about, but today they all meet. Trust us. It’s interesting. The domestic catfish industry (largely located along the...