Scientists Found a Surprisingly Simple Way to Cut Mercury Content in Canned Tuna by 35%

Food & Wine ^ | February 19, 2025 | Stacey Leasca

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Secret Agent Man]

Sounds good :)

[9422WMR]

Stop using those old mercury thermostat vials as Tuna bait! Easy as pie!

[fso301]

Scientists Found a Surprisingly Simple Way to Cut Mercury Content in Canned Tuna by 35%

Increase the dolphin content?

[dfwgator]

Weemsco Tuna!

[posterchild]

These tools can complement the industry's efforts to minimize mercury release into the environment

users can simply discard the water solution after opening the package

[Jonty30]

I thought the solution involved a magnetic.

[AndyJackson]

powdered, thiolated silica and thiolated polymers

You can put that in your mouth. Me, uhhhh...uhhhh.

[nickcarraway]

Mercury is okay in vaccines, but not in tuna?

[Wuli]

The mercury will be in the disposable sachets the fish was packaged in, and will be released into the environment via the landfills the residential household waste is deposited in. The mercury is removed from the tuna (to some degree) but is still an environmental issue.

[Ezekiel]

They further explained that the method involves treating them in the solution first, then absorbing the mercury onto "powdered, thiolated silica and thiolated polymers,"

Layman's terms. None of that inside 🐂💩 jargon nobody understands.

-- Yes, sir.

[Secret Agent Man]

Where did I say that?

[I-ambush]

Does this work for Weemsco tuna with that great dolphin flavor?

[servo1969]

I thought maybe they were going to make the cans 35% smaller.

[shelterguy]

Only the cool kids will get the reference.

[Fledermaus]

I buy pouches

[Fledermaus]

They care

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Nice, but can they get the steel out of steelhead?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But I like my tuna packed in olive oil not water.