Food and Drug Administration action levels for

Food and Drug Administration. Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal feed. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Washington, DC, 1985, pp. 1-13. 

From 1969 to 1972, over 3,500 fish from New York State lakes and streams were collected and analyzed for mercury content (Eisenbud et al., 1978 Boulton and Hetling, 1972). Less than ten percent of these fish lad mercury levels above 1.0 mg Ife/Kg body weight, the present Lfriited States Food and Drug Administration "actionable level" for commercially caught fish. A sizable proportion of these fish were collected from Onondaga Lake, near Syracuse, New York, a body of water contaminated by discharges frcm a chlor-alkali plant. 

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