Something’s fishy. ‘Patsy for polluters’?

Add comment December 16th, 2008

The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protectional Agency are fighting over how much fish we should eat, based on health concerns. One side points out the dietary benefits. The other worries about mercury poison. Wow, they’re fighting for the well-being of us Americans, I thought at first.

Well, maybe.

This accusation was made, courtesy of healthyrockford.com:

“The FDA was once a fearsome protector of the public health. Now it’s nothing more than a patsy for polluters,” Richard Wiles, executive director of the Environmental Working Group, said in a statement.

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