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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13514
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Fisheries

NGO Bloom denounces widespread contamination of canned tuna with mercury

On Tuesday 29 October, after an 18-month investigation, the NGO Bloom denounced the “widespread contamination of tuna with mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that is extremely dangerous to human health”.

The NGO, which analysed nearly 150 cans from five European countries (Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Italy), describes this as a real “public health scandal” that the tuna lobbies are trying to sweep under the carpet.

According to Bloom’s investigation, the public...

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