Can eating too much tuna REALLY lead to mercury poisoning?
Alright, so I know this topic's been done many times before, but browsing through those threads, I haven't found a definitive answer. All of them were either links to the various widely accepted recommendations or repudiation very eloquently put as "I've been eating tuna three times a day for months now and I'm not dead yet".
I've also stumbled upon this - [url]http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/12/do-fish-fly.html[/url] - where the author claims that it's basically impossible for people to eat that much tuna (or other mercury containing fish) so as to get mercury poisoning. She supports her views with discerning between reference doses (if I gathered correctly, these are the recommendations put forth by various organisations) and benchmark doses.
I've also done a quick PubMed search and again, no luck, basically just some articles with the same recommendations against eating too much mercury containing fish.
Anyone more versed in these matters care to shed some more light on this, so that it's settled once and for all?