High levels of mercury in tinned tuna

[anotherbanana]

Maybe it is best avoided if you dont wanna be poisoned:

https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/deux-ong-alertent-sur-la-forte-presence-de-mercure-dans-nos-boites-de-thon-en-conserve_VN-202410290823.html

[menthe]

What is left that humans can safely consume?

[anotherbanana]

Each other?

[alittlebitfrench]

On 29/10/2024 at 20:08, anotherbanana said:

Maybe it is best avoided if you dont wanna be poisoned:

https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/deux-ong-alertent-sur-la-forte-presence-de-mercure-dans-nos-boites-de-thon-en-conserve_VN-202410290823.html

You forgot the micro plastics in the tuna.

Death by mercury in the tin or death by micro plastics in the tuna. Take your pick.

Tuna is very healthy to be fair.
 

If you factor out the micro plastics and the mercury.

[Lehaut]

The nutritionist we watched on TF1 seemed to indicate that pregnant/breast feeding women were most at risk and should avoid Tuna.

I should think the effects of eating the odd tin a week pale into insignificance compared to smoking, drinking, UPFs and sugar.

Farmed salmon also gets a bad rap. 

[walterdeanase]

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12 minutes ago, Lehaut said:

The nutritionist we watched on TF1 seemed to indicate that pregnant/breast feeding women were most at risk and should avoid Tuna.

I should think the effects of eating the odd tin a week pale into insignificance compared to smoking, drinking, UPFs and sugar.

Farmed salmon also gets a bad rap. 

Nice Qus!

[menthe]

I read that you'd have to eat something like 4 tins everyday for you to be properly poisoned?

Who the hell can you believe these days?

[alittlebitfrench]

2 hours ago, menthe said:

I read that you'd have to eat something like 4 tins everyday for you to be properly poisoned?

Who the hell can you believe these days?

Food is a problem here in France I have to admit.

Its so difficult to eat a green diet given the amount of pesticides they spray of their produce.

Dont get me started about meat in France.

What do you do ?

[Lehaut]

What drives me mad is the number of recalls.  We bought  Leclerc's own make smoked peppered mackerel the other week.  We do the self scan thing whilst shopping, my wife has the loyalty card etc.  Ate the mackerel (I made mine into rilletts).  That night and over the weekend my wife was ill.  Four days later I happened to see a French post about that very product being recalled due to Listeria.  Having checked what the symptoms were (fever, chills aches nausea etc) we realised that was just how my wife felt.

As her card/scan has all the info of all the products bought and they have her email address I still don't understand why they cannot contact the client to tell them of these problems/dangers.  Also, short of taking a bucket of stomach contents in, you have no recorse to a refund if you have eaten the defect product.

[Le martin-pêcheur]

A good, although somewhat concerning, website is https://rappel.conso.gouv.fr/

You can put your favourite supermarket group into the search at the top of the page, click, and then save that link somewhere.

Ours is set for Intermarché. We check at least once a day and after shopping, although as you say, it can be too late if you have already eaten the product.

We find it quite staggering in the 21st Century to see so many foodstuffs and other products recalled!

[Lori]

I look at the Rappel site every single day.  I have for many years.  If you do, you will find that certain grocery stores have more recalled food products than others.  Yes, they all will have some, but watch each day for an extended period of time and you might change your shopping habits.  I did.

Yes, it is amazing how many foods get recalled.  I no longer buy unpasteurized cheese (SO many recalls).  The mercury in canned tuna issue has been known for many years now.  It gets popped in the news every now and then.

[Harnser]

12 hours ago, Lehaut said:

What drives me mad is the number of recalls.  We bought  Leclerc's own make smoked peppered mackerel the other week.  We do the self scan thing whilst shopping, my wife has the loyalty card etc.  Ate the mackerel (I made mine into rilletts).  That night and over the weekend my wife was ill.  Four days later I happened to see a French post about that very product being recalled due to Listeria.  Having checked what the symptoms were (fever, chills aches nausea etc) we realised that was just how my wife felt.

As her card/scan has all the info of all the products bought and they have her email address I still don't understand why they cannot contact the client to tell them of these problems/dangers.  Also, short of taking a bucket of stomach contents in, you have no recorse to a refund if you have eaten the defect product.

We bought a pack of a similar smoked peppered mackerel a week or so ago, from an Intermarche store. Took it out of the fridge a few days later,  within use by date but didn't like the look of it, so in the bin it went.

We find that if you stick to Danish and Norwegian fished and processed fish it's more reliable,  fresher, cleaner, boned properly and so far, touch wood, doesn't give me the trots or worse.

This applies to Norwegian prawns, mackerel and farmed salmon. The farmed Norwegian  salmon we buy is virtually indistinguishable from wild caught, ie not fatty and flabby like the scottish  farmed product. You'll have to search the freezer cabinets to find it though.