Reuters (5/16, Clarke) quotes from a letter that about 40 experts and environmental advocacy group representatives sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in April, in which they emphasized that research “carried out in the past decade has both clarified the beneficial nutritional effects of fish consumption during pregnancy and found adverse effects of prenatal methylmercury exposure at very low doses, at least an order of magnitude below exposures known to be harmful when the current Advisory was written.”
Reuters says that the Food and Drug Administration and the HHS have indicated that the mercury in fish advisory, which hasn't been updated since 2004, is still under review, but declined to elaborate on what stage of the process the guideline is in or when it could be ready for posting publicly to obtain comment.
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