Health Department: It's safe to eat more fish in Minnesota
The Minnesota Health Department's newest fish consumption guidelines say it's safe to eat more fish than previously recommended.
The department recently revised its entire fish consumption advisory guide.
Betsy Wattenberg, a toxicologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, told Minnesota Public Radio that regularly re-evaluating those guidelines is a good public health practice.
"In this case, the benefits of eating fish are very direct because of their nutritional benefit," Wattenberg said. "So I think it was a good idea for them to go back, do the reassessment, realize that people could benefit very directly from eating more fish without increasing their risk of toxicity from exposure to the chemicals that are present in the fish."
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