Any home kit to measure the mercury content in food?

My family likes to eat fish. With all this talk about mercury content
in fish I am wondering if there is a reasonably quick and easy way to
measure dangerous levels of mercury content in fish?

No, there is no home kit / easy way for the low levels of mercury involved.
You also have to grind up the fish. Kind of defeats the purpose
of testing.


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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:10:00 GMT, "Henry Boyter" <[Only registered users see links. ].com>
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Not really. One could grind up a representative sample and eat the
rest.

PF

Its best to stick a meat thermometer into the raw fish. If it does not
move then the fish is safe - as per FDA guidelines.

Joel




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Henry!

I guess you do not like fishburger or fishburger quarterpounder widda
cheese ............


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Two all-fish patties, special sauce, pickles, lettuce, tomato, on a
sesame seed bun ........


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The best way to avoid mercury from fish is to not eat shark and tuna.

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That prompted me to ask this: In this particular store grocery, they
put a label on Salmon saying that *color added*. I never When I
inquired about it, the guy said ..."Oh ..they were fed carrot or
something like that." I didn't believe him but didn't ask any other
employee there.

Does any one know about this color thing on Salmon?

> The best way to avoid mercury from fish is to not eat shark and tuna.

As well as fresh water fish from lakes/streams with a paper mill (as
well as other more obvious heavy metal industries of course) nearby.
Generally forget about eels and other scavengers.

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This may not be so. I tried fishing once with a carrot tied on the end
of my pole, but I got no bites.

(A couple of donkeys came by though and looked interested.)


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