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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A 2009 Research Review by Dr. Sandra Altherr of ProWildlife and Sigrid Lüber of OceanCare

The Chief Medical Officer and Chief Physician of Denmark’s Faroe Islands officially request a total ban on the human consumption of pilot whales due to their mercury and PCB toxicity.