In the next logical step after some grocery chains voluntarily putting mercury warnings at their seafood counters, one company is now marketing low-mercury fish to consumers worried about its neurotoxic effects on infants and children. Micro Analytical Systems Inc. is working on a method that will allow seafood suppliers to test the levels in their fish, and has created a "Safe Harbor" label that uses a stricter standard than FDA's. A small chain in Northern California is going to start selling fish under the label early next year, and Whole Foods is considering it.
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