Image via Wikipedia By BOYD HARNELL Special to The Japan Times On May 10, in a front-page lead story headlined “Taiji locals test high for mercury,” The Japan Times reported the results of tests by the National Institute of Minamata Disease (NIMD) that found “extremely high methyl-mercury (MeHg) concentrations in the hair of some residents […]

By BOYD HARNELL Special to The Japan Times The following are the results of certified and documented tests of Total Mercury (T-Hg) found in random samples of dolphin meat purchased from supermarkets in Taiji and Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, in 2006-2008. Hideki Moronuki, deputy director of the Far Seas Fishery Division of the Fisheries Agency, seems […]

Image via Wikipedia Toxic Chemicals in Whale and Dolphin Meat in Japan Health Consequences for Japanese Consumers Some 18-thousand Dall’s porpoise are killed each year off Northern Japan. Permits to kill some three thousand dolphins and small whales off the main island of Honshu are in effect. Most of the dolphins taken are slaughtered for […]

Eating Pilot whale meat is suspected as a prime reason why the people of the Faroe Islands have twice as much risk of getting Parkinson’s as European Danes. The Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, are an island group consisting of eighteen islands off the coast of Northern Europe. Pilot Whale meat is a […]

Image via Wikipedia Excessive ingestion of mercury—a health hazard associated with consuming predatory fishes—damages neurological, sensory-motor and cardiovascular functioning. The mercury levels found in Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) and bluefin tuna species (Thunnus maccoyii, Thunnus orientalis, and Thunnus thynnus), exceed or approach levels permissible by Canada, the European Union, Japan, the US, and the World […]

Image via Wikipedia PARIS — Tuna sushi bought at a range of US restaurants and supermarkets had mercury that breached levels set by health watchdogs, a study published on Wednesday said. The offending samples included bluefin tuna, the hugely-prized species that has been plunged into a fierce conservation battle, the researchers reported in the British […]

Image via Wikipedia AIRED ON PBS JUNE 26, 2007 Dr. Pal Weihe is chief physician at the Department of Occupational and Public Health in the Faroese Hospital System. He studied epidemiology and occupational medicine in Denmark for 20 years before returning to his native Faroe Islands, where he spent the next 20 years studying the […]

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