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April 5, 2003
F.D.A. Sharply Lowers 'Safe' Mercury Level
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


OBILE, Ala., April 4 — The Food and Drug Administration has begun using
the Environmental Protection Agency's much lower safe level for mercury
in the human body, an official of the food and drug agency said this
week.

Before the change, the F.D.A. guidelines set a safe level that was four
times as high as that of the environmental agency's standard.

"The F.D.A. is basing its advisory on the E.P.A.'s reference dose," Dr.
David Acheson, the newly appointed chief medical officer in the F.D.A.'s
science office, said in an interview first reported in The Mobile
Register. "Are we formally endorsing it? I'm not aware, but we are
certainly using it and pay attention to it."

A paper in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical
Association detailed the new position.

"This is really a landmark paper," said Kathryn R. Mahaffey, an E.P.A
official who helped write the article. "It's really a consensus on what
we know about mercury."

Dr. Acheson said the food and drug agency planned to add more fish to
its list of those that should not be eaten if new mercury testing
reveals that a species tends to exceed the new levels.
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