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Is eating lots of packaged tuna dangerous? please advise!

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Depending on which: tuna species it is - there can be variable amounts of mercury.

Dr Munshower and another doctor agreed

Answered 8/1/2014

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