Mercury damage to babies costs billions (low IQs)

http://www.lcv.org/News/News.cfm?ID=3749&c=27


Lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb costs the United States $8.7 billion a year in lost earnings potential, according to a study released Monday by researchers at a New York hospital.

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Using work examining the effects of lead exposure on IQ, researchers determined that even a 1.6-point drop in IQ could cost a person $31,800 in lifetime earnings because of missed educational opportunities or jobs

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The Food and Drug Administration has warned that high levels of mercury in albacore tuna and some other fish can pose a hazard for pregnant women. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 8 percent of American women of childbearing age have enough mercury in their blood to put a fetus at risk.

Mount Sinai pediatrician and lead researcher Leonardo Trasande estimated that between 316,588 and 637,233 children are born each year with umbilical cord blood mercury levels linked to IQ loss.
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lower IQs also succumb to kool aid quicker.

there is a method to the neo-con madness.

...if you want to eat fish, ONLY eat wild Alaskan salmon which comparatively has very little mercury contamination.

plant them with their heads up? Or their tails down... just wondering.....

I'm not agin all forms of organic farm raised thingies... I am particularly fond of this company in Hawaii (sp)

www.Cyanotech.com

A growing body of scientific literature demonstrates that natural astaxanthin surpasses many of the antioxidant benefits of vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene and other carotenoids. Human and animal studies have shown that natural astaxanthin can:

* protect the skin from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation
* enhance the immune system
* enhance energy metabolism

Research has also shown that natural astaxanthin has up to 550 times the antioxidant activity of vitamin E and 10 times the antioxidant activity of beta-carotene.

"The US is an enormous market for farmed salmon and the stores named
sell salmon farmed in BC and the east coast of Canada," said Ms. Lash.
"US consumers are not getting the full story when it comes to how it is
raised and produced. We see this suit as an important step in consumer
health protection as well as a wake-up call to industry."

The lawsuits charge that the chains, which account for over 6,000
stores in more than 30 states across the US, deceived consumers by
failing to comply with federal law requiring disclosure of artificial
coloring in farm-raised salmon. Unlike wild salmon, farm-raised fish
rely on chemicals to turn their flesh pink. Industry sponsored market
research shows that "consumers will pay more for redder salmon" because
consumers believe color is an indicator of salmon quality.

Fish farmers use what's called a "Salmofan" -not unlike the chips found
in paint stores - to determine the volume of chemical needed to get the
right flesh color. Wild salmon develop their trademark color
naturally, because they feed on certain prey like krill (tiny shrimp-
like crustaceans). Farmed salmon get their color from formulated feed,
which usually contains the chemicals astaxanthin and canthaxanthin.
(In response to concerns about adverse health affects, the European
Union has agreed to significantly reduce the level of canthaxanthin
that may be fed to farm-raised salmon).

According to the suits' claims, lack of labeling also misleads the
public into thinking they're buying wild salmon, avoiding the problems
associated with farm-raised salmon including:

(1) contamination from antibiotics and exposure to pesticides and
other chemicals,

(2) misrepresentation of health benefits - according to the US
Department of Agriculture, farmed Atlantic salmon is over 200
percent higher in saturated fat than wild pink or chum salmon,

(3) Risks to wild salmon and other aquatic species from disease
and parasites like sea lice, which escape from farm pens,

(4) Impacts on marine ecosystems in British Columbia from fish
farm pollution,

The claims are being brought by Smith & Lowney, PLLC, a law firm
specializing in public interest consumer law. The named
representatives in the class action suits are consumers who purchased
farm-raised salmon from the chains, and were not made aware of the
presence of artificial colorants. The lawsuits are designed to protect
millions of consumers who purchase farm-raised salmon from the three
chains, and call for:

(i) Damages for consumers, expected to exceed tens of millions of
dollars for each chain,

(ii) A court order requiring the chains to inform consumers that
the salmon are artificially colored,

(iii) Civil penalties for violation of various consumer protection
statutes

For more details, contact Knoll Lowney by Phone: (206) 860-2976 or
(206) 650-1044 or contact Paul Kampmeier Attorney by Phone:
(206) 860-4102 or the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, British
Columbia through Jennifer Lash by Phone: (250) 741-4006

More:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3xfx-sUy6KoJ:bankrupt.com/CAR_Public/030425.mbx+astaxanthin+and+%22Federal+Trade+Commission%22&hl=en


Cyanotech withdraws pettition to use Astaxanthin as nutritional supplement
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal
Register of April 11, 2002 (67 FR 17700), FDA announced that a food
additive petition (FAP 2A4732) had been filed by Cyanotech Corp., c/o
T. Todd Lorenz, 11034 West Ocean Air Dr., 252, San Diego, CA
92130 (currently 73-4460 Queen Kaahumanu Hwy., 102, Kailua-
Kona, HI 96740). The petition proposed to amend the food additive
regulations in Part 172 Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to
Food for Human Consumption (21 CFR part 172) to provide for the safe
use of Haematococcus algae astaxanthin as a nutrient supplement.
Cyanotech Corp. has now withdrawn the petition without prejudice to a
future filing (21 CFR 171.7(a)).

Dated: June 3, 2002.
Laura M. Tarantino,
Deputy Director, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition.

BILLING CODE 4160-01-S

http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/062702d.htm

Tastes like death but if you swallow fast it's OK.

I found the best price here:

http://www.nutiva.com/index.php

of any sort.

I suggest you read here.... beware, you are dealing with your health here... some essential fats are preserved with Vitamin E, be careful when you shop for price.

www.Martekbio.com

www.DhaDepot.com

http://www.essentialfats.com/

www.Efamol.com

nt

before getting pregnant women should have themselves checked for mercury. raising a normal IQ child is hard work. raising a lower IQ child is a daunting, lifelong situation. it don't stop at 18.

they wouldn't do her mercury, even though she asked.....

nt

:nuke:

Please see this map:

The Electoral College vs Actual College




Less IQ = Less College = More Republicans

Both conditions cost the system and the parents a LOT of extra money. Mercury was used in vaccinations and may still be.

See new thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=20616&mesg_id=20616




LA Times Poll Finds Bush Leading Among Less-Educated Voters, Not the Affluent
http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2004/10/27/168527.html


Lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb costs the United States $8.7 billion a year in lost earnings potential, according to a study released Monday by researchers at a New York hospital.
http://www.lcv.org/News/News.cfm?ID=3749&c=27


EPA cooked mercury rule, agency inspector reports
Staff ordered to work backward from goal to justify the proposal
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/04/MNG7AB5T7I1.DTL


The Junk Science of George W. Bush
http://www.alternet.org/story/17949


Bush's Crimes Against Nature
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20124/


Mad About Mercury
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/19903/


Bush Plan Falls Short on Mercury
http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/200305/mercury.asp


MERCURY POLLUTION COSTS U.S. ECONOMY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY, NEW STUDY ESTIMATES
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/050228.asp

See new thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=20616&mesg_id=20616

In my NC town the percentage of individuals with Bachelors degrees or higher levels of education is 60.4%. The national average for Bachelors level is 24%. My town is HEAVILY Republican.

Furthermore, Bush won the majority of the upper income voters who have a higher percentage of degrees. Level of education and income are strongly postively correlated.

So, while I'm not sure if the data on your map for college completion rates is correct, your connection of the under educated voting for Bush is not true.

Showing only rates of graduation really means nothing. How many colleges are there in each of those states? One state may have a lower graduation rate, but produce more graduates overall since their mass is greater.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but a higher percentage of Republicans have degrees than Democrats. Check the REAL data on this.

Has been talking alot about autism, and only mentioned the mercury briefly. It would be good to tell him the truth, even though he won't report it.

so I bet this just works out to their advantage.

with the biproducts of 'progress'

Only now we have elaborate myths to convince us that we needen't worry about making catastrophic changes to the makeup of the biosphere.

I've informed plenty of my friends and you know what, no one believes me when it is just amazona and the U.S.D.A. saying that fish is not a good thing to be loading up on. Lots of women are under the deluded impression that fish is a health food! No one who is pregnant or planning to be needs to be loading up on fish but what can you do?

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

How can you look at their lonely little fish heads and just walk by leaving them un-eaten?

Have you no heart?