Perspective on Tuna Fish

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THE discovery of environmental mercury contamination in this country has led to increasing concern about mercury toxicity. Mercury poisoning is not a new phenomenon — knowledge of its manifestations goes back at least 1500 years. But the tragedies of Minamata and Niigata in Japan, and the less widely known but no less tragic epidemics in Iraq, Pakistan and Guatemala in the past decade, represent a distinctly different clinical entity: alkyl mercury poisoning. A key concept developed by the extensive Japanese and Swedish investigations in this field is that alkyl mercury compounds (chiefly methyl, the form in which mercury exists in . . .