A New Study Finds Dangerous Levels of Mercury From Amazon Fish

The joint research team from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Amapá, and the Iepé-Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena conducted the study. Published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the team claimed that 77.6 percent of carnivorous fish, 20 percent of omnivores, and 2.4 percent of herbivores contained mercury that "surpassed safety limits."

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