US health professional organisations “Physicians for Social Responsibility” (PSR) and the Association of Reproductive Health Professional (ARHP) have released on 18 June 2004 guidelines to safe fish consumption written by doctors.
The guides urge women of child-bearing age and children to avoid fish that are highest in mercury and PCBs.
These guidelines follow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recently announced guidelines.
According to the PSR/ARHP their guidelines intentionally recommend a more cautious approach to fish consumption than the advisory issued jointly by the FDA and EPA. In addition, the federal government advisory ignores fish contaminated by PCBs.
The brochure and the pocket guide “Healthy Fish, Healthy Families” provides specific guidelines for parents to help them choose what kind of and how much fish they and their young children can most safely eat.