Is eating sushi safe?
During a recent meal with a Wall Street financial adviser, he mentioned that he eats sushi several times a week because he believed it to be the most healthful and convenient way to dine while continuing to work at his desk. I was left wondering if that was as healthful as he said, given the recent concern about mercury in fish.
All around the financial centres in London and New York, shops which once featured only simple sandwiches now stock different types of sushi and sashimi, including those made from various types of tuna. This despite the well-publicised concern when Richard Gelfond, CEO of the US cinema group Imax, reported that he had been diagnosed with mercury toxicity after eating sushi on a daily basis.