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 ...

The mercury threshold is three times higher for tuna than for other fish species ... Primary school children get free school meals across Wales as part of the Welsh government’s commitment ...

There is, however, one controversy hanging over canned tuna -- and canned fish in general -- and that's mercury. Mercury is a heavy metal that is toxic to humans, impairing vision, speech ...

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 ...

Tuna is one of the world’s favorite types of fish, but there are ways to get all that seafood flavor with plants, too.

A French NGO, Bloom, randomly tested 148 tuna cans from five European countries, finding mercury contamination in all of them. One out of ten exceeded authorised levels for fresh tuna. Some samples ...