At one Bay Area seafood company, the mercury content of each individual fish is measured to make sure what goes in the can is safe to consume.
SAUSALITO -- When you reach for your cordless electric drill, you likely won't be digging a hole in the head of a dead fish yet that is exactly what they do about ten thousand times a day at Safe Catch, a seafood distributor in Sausalito.Wittenberg's design business began to suffer exactly when she did.
Eventually, doctors discovered the culprit was mercury in the tuna-heavy diet she'd been following to lose weight. As Woody Allen once observed, life really is just one big restaurant. And tuna are big eaters indeed -- the record weight for one particular Charlie was almost 1,000 pounds although most weigh around 130 lb."The FDA in their studies found about one in five untested cans at the consumer shelf have a spike in mercury," said Bryan Boches, chief executive of Safe Catch Tuna.
None of the large tuna producers expressed interest in the mercury detector which would virtually guarantee safe levels of mercury in each can of tuna."We individually test about 10,000 tuna a day [using Bonnie's husband's device] and we take what looks like a modified drill bit, we take a biopsy from the tuna, we put it into our machine and, in 45 seconds, we get parts per billion of mercury in the fish," Boches explained.
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