In addition to avoiding booze and taking it easy on the caffeine,
most pregnant women are told to be careful about eating fish. Just four
years ago, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental
Protection Agency issued a statement advising women of childbearing
age, pregnant and nursing women and infants and children to limit their
consumption of fish that might contain mercury because of potential
health risks. 
Well, apparently the FDA has changed its mind. Late last week, The Washington Post reported
that the FDA has drafted a report asking the federal government to
backpedal on the fish warning because the benefits of eating tuna and
its ilk outweigh the potential hazards of consuming mercury. Apparently
folks at the EPA are kinda ticked; their memos say the FDA's findings
are "scientifically flawed and inadequate."
Other medical professionals and advocates seem to be siding with the EPA on this one. This
Market Watch story
reports that several have joined the chorus against these new
recommendations. The director of the Mercury Policy Project is
apparently so incensed that he has developed an insatiable need to
inject fish metaphors into everything he says, as
quoted in the Market Watch piece:
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