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New Research Institute Research Maine biodiversity found that 84 percent of fish have unsafe mercury levels, cbsnews reports. This poses a risk to human health and changes approaches to regular use certain varieties of fish. Study: 84% of all fish contains increased mercury levels Excessive mercury ecosystem pollution is on the agenda of the United Nations conference Nations this week in Geneva. Richard Gelfond always considered himself an athletically trained person, until one day, something went completely wrong. “I went to work, and felt that about to fall, “said Gelfond, adding that he had balance problems. Gelfond, which is the general director of IMAX film, consulted with doctors on both coasts. But they could not explain the reason for his condition. He was worried. “It got to the point where I really don’t could cross the street. I had to hold my wife’s hand, “- Gelfond said. He later went through many tests until a neurologist didn’t ask Gelfond if he had eaten a lot of fish? He said that eat it twice a day. The diagnosis became clear – mercury poisoning. “I I thought that I eat food that is good for my body, but it turned out that – vice versa, “says Gelfond. Eating fish is the main way for people – get mercury poisoning. Tuna and swordfish contain the largest amount of mercury that could cause damage brain and kidney. Due to the fact that environmental pollution by mercury is global, no country alone can achieve food safety. In Tokyo, bluefin tuna is sold for a record $ 1.76. The threat of mass extinction of a population in the oceans rated as “significant”. “Seventy-five percent of the fish, which is consumed in the US is imported, “says Linda Greer of Council for the Protection of Natural Resources. Ecological group Greer Supports UN Treaty on Reducing World Greenhouse Emissions mercury gases. “Many of the tuna we eat, for example, swam in the South China Sea and they are contaminated with mercury. They fall into cans and then daily to our table, “said Greer. Proposed UN Treaty calls for: filtering emissions mercury from burning coal; reduce mercury use in gold mining; batteries and electronics. “I probably today only 75 percent the same as before, “says Gelfond.” I I can’t run, for example. I guess I’ll never be able to to do what he was able to do before. “Gelfond became an object research at universities on the effects of mercury on human health. Now for him the effects of the presence of mercury in the body can be permanent.
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