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Florida International University [(FiU)] marine biology Ph.D. student Laura Garcia Barcia—collaborating with a team from the United States and Hong Kong—conducted the first study measuring levels of toxic mercury in shark fins sold in Asian markets. The team found the samples all had staggeringly high amounts of mercury that are dangerous to human health—far surpassing guidelines and legal limits set by the Hong Kong Center for Food Safety.
"The results were astonishing," Garcia Barcia said. "The mercury levels are super high and, on average, 6 to 10 times higher than what a safe level of mercury would be considered in Hong Kong."
The team examined 267 shark fin trimmings from the[sic] nine of the most common shark species in the fin trade, testing each one for levels of total mercury and methyl-mercury—the organic, highly toxic form of mercury. The concentrations in each shark fin sampled for this study exceeded the maximum legal limit in Hong Kong of 0.5 parts per million.
The highest of 55.52 parts per million came from a great hammerhead. The lowest level found in the fins sampled was 0.02 parts per million from a blue shark—the most common species found in the trade.
[...] FIU marine scientist Demian Chapman, co-author of the study, said exceeding these limits isn't just a health concern—it's actually illegal. The Hong Kong Food Adulteration Legislation states anyone who sells a food product with levels above the legal limit can face fines and criminal charges.
[...] "Not every human cares about eating an animal that's endangered. But every human is worried about their health," Chapman said. "That could be a very powerful driver of change in the future."
More information: Laura Garcia Barcia et al. Mercury and arsenic in processed fins from nine of the most traded shark species in the Hong Kong and China dried seafood markets: The potential health risks of shark fin soup, Marine Pollution Bulletin (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111281
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @05:10AM (3 children)
This is just another example of the fucked up priorities in our country and the extreme white privilege. White people are the ones eating shark as a delicacy, not black people, who continue to be victims of extreme inequality. We're concerned about a bit of mercury in a delicacy for rich white people but ignore all the black lives that are lost as the hands of racist white cops. The United States is truly a sick country. This is why the protests are necessary. Of course, white people complain about any aspect of the protests that might inconvenience them even slightly, because they want the protests to be easier for ignore. Wake up, people! It's horribly wrong that we're concerned about mercury levels in a delicacy for rich white people but not about the countless lives of unarmed black people that are ended at the hands of racist white cops. Black lives matter!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Monday June 01 2020, @07:24AM (2 children)
White men eating shark fins at a banquet while black man suffer, collecting cotton.
This is your brain on BLM.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @04:40PM (1 child)
Shouldn't that be "Yellow men eating shark fins at a banquet while black man suffer, collecting cotton"?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 03 2020, @11:28AM
Being anti yellow plus anti white would make them black supremacists, which would raise the hypocrisy to frankly intolerable levels and distract to the Soros fueled white genocide objective. Whether the opposition to Soros is genuine or it plays good cop bad cop with the globalists, remains to be seen.
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