Eating fish means eating mercury in meaningful quanties. The EFSA advocates for that reason against eating tuna every day.
If I buy sea salt, does it also contain mercury? Is so how much? Is it a meaningful quantity such as tuna?
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Did you do any research into this question by any chance? Could you share what you found? Thanks, and welcome to the site. :-)– anongoodnurseSep 4, 2015 at 19:46
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In general, the answer seems to be no, it does not contain a meaningful quantity. Refer first to this answer in Seasoned Advice.
Although not peer reviewed, this article appears to be a credible source and it's the only documented direct test for mercury in sea salts that I've seen. Refer to Table 3 (Hg is mercury).
answered Sep 12, 2015 at 4:29
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2I've been looking into this, and I also haven't managed to find another article about quantities of mercury in salt, aside from the one you cited. Their methodology is sound, I can see no apparent conflict of interest as they produce analytical standards (nothing health related) and as someone who's business is in analytics, they should know what they're doing.– LuckySep 12, 2015 at 5:55
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