“Isn’t eating fish to promote good health a no-brainer? Not according to a new Consumer Reports article that claims pregnant women should not eat fish, especially tuna. According to its analysis of Food and Drug Administration data, Consumer Reports says the presence of mercury in fish could endanger the development of a baby’s brain. The good news is that Consumer Reports is mistaken. The fact is that the fish eaten daily by expectant mothers poses no risk to their babies’ health. The science simply does not say what the article says it does. The catalyst for this mercury-in-fish scare is a two-year-old Environmental Protection Agency report, which estimated that 630,000 children had blood mercury levels that exceeded the EPA’s Reference Dose. This report has been consistently misrepresented to suggest that hundreds of thousands of women and children are at risk from mercury in fish.” (07/02/06)