Pregnant Women Warned on Fish
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Pregnant women and those who might become pregnant should not eat four types of fish--shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish--because it could contain enough mercury to, over time, hurt an unborn baby’s developing brain, the government said. But the Food and Drug Administration rejected calls to also put tuna on the list, saying the other four types of fish contain far more mercury than does tuna.
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