Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
My father worked for 20 years as an environmental scientist gathering data on the amounts and effects of many hundreds of compounds and chemicals in the air, water, soil, and yes, even the flesh of animals and fish.
You're talking in the worst cases of a couple parts per million and probably more like parts per billion (even trillion) of something like mercury. Unless you eat your weight in fish every month there is no way you'll get sick. There are literally thousands of qualified scientists working every day to ensure that the acceptable levels of such chemicals in foods are kept at a small fraction of would be even in the most conservative of estimates a dangerous level.
To get a concept of one part per billion, that's about three seconds out of a century.
Yes but these acceptable levels do not seem to take into account people like me that tend to stockpile toxins in our bodies. We are the ones that need to detoxify this stuff from our bodies using chelators, anti oxidants, etc. Personally I have liver problems and my body type causes me to tend to become toxic with various metals.
I had 18 mercury amalgam fillings that were all replaced with non metal ones in 1986. I'm totally against the idea of putting toxic metals such as Hg in people's mouths.
There are many fish and other foods that I personally wouldn't even consider eating. I have no faith in what the FDA, EPA, etc., has to say about "what's considered to be safe to eat" because what's good for someone in robust health may not be for someone like me. I tend to live by what my veteran health food advocates do and live by. We thoroughly study the foods we eat.