Sentences with phrase «relatively high mercury»

Four kinds of fish — tilefish, shark, swordfish, and king mackerel — have relatively high mercury content and should be eaten only occasionally.

Not exact matches

Some fish have high mercury levels; others have relatively low mercury levels.

The findings, published in the journal Environmental Research, show a relatively high average mercury concentration in umbilical cord blood (8.2 micrograms per litre), with a 24 % of samples exceeding the WHO's provisional tolerable weekly intake equivalent.

The primary concern is aimed at the relatively high levels of mercury in seafood which can accumulate to toxic levels in the body over time.

For example: burning the fossil fuels necessary to provide the additional energy used by incandescents releases more mercury into the atmosphere than is contained in even a low - quality, relatively high - mercury CFL, whereas the CFL's mercury is contained within the bulb.