Nowadays, when environmental pollution is always serious, the amount of mercury in water is especially high, having impacts on all living fish. Accordingly, people are at risk of exposing to mercury in many ways, not just inhaling mercury vapor through the mining process or working in industrial environments but through fish in their daily menu.

Many cases of mercury exposure are because of eating fish containing mercury, which have high mercury content exceeding the allowable threshold. Over time, mercury will cause very high toxicity and seriously affect health, increase brain and liver diseases, increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, autism, etc.

Which type of fish contains the most mercury?

Catfish

Did you know that large catfish are raised and fed with hormones in order to increase their weight for high profits. These fish are considered unclean and at risk of containing toxic mercury, so readers should consider choosing them carefully.

Ocean perch

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