Hair Testing for Mercury Before Considering Pregnancy
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-05-28

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DESCRIPTION:The EPA safety limit on mercury in fish may not sufficiently protect pregnant women in the United States. This has led to a recommendation that fish-eating women get tested for mercury before considering getting pregnant. There is so much more mercury in fish compared to other foods that it can be used as a biomarker for fish consumption--see Hair Testing for Mercury (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hair-testing-for-mercury/). 

How much mercury exposure is there from fish as compared to amalgam fillings and vaccinations? See Amalgam Fillings vs. Canned Tuna (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amalgam-fillings-vs-canned-tuna/) and Mercury in Vaccinations vs. Tuna (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mercury-in-vaccinations-vs-tuna-2/). Fish aren't the only source of toxic heavy metals, though. 

Mercury has been found in both high fructose corn syrup-containing products (see Mercury in Corn Syrup? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mercury-in-corn-syrup/)) and Ayervedic dietary supplements (Get the Lead Out (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/get-the-lead-out/)). There are also videos on aluminum in cheese (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aluminum-in-vaccines-vs-food/), arsenic in chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/arsenic-in-chicken/), and a thousand other nutrition subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/).

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