Women along the North Shore who reduced their meals of higher-mercury fish and instead ate lower-mercury fish reduced the mercury level in their blood by an average of 40 percent, according to results of a Minnesota Department of Health study released Monday.
The study of 499 women in Cook County, including many members of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, found that 3 percent of the women tested had elevated mercury levels.
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