The fish advisory guidelines provide information to help consumers choose the safest fish to eat. They also recommend how often fish can be eaten to promote health benefits and avoid health risks for fish caught from San Pablo Reservoir in Contra Costa County.
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OEHHA releases information to fish consumers to help them choose the safest fish to eat from Lake Natoma in Sacramento County and Folsom Lake in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties. The guidelines recommend how often these fish can be eaten to maximize their health benefits while minimizing the health risks from mercury contamination.
Draft report and guidelines provide information to fish consumers to help them choose the safest fish to eat from the Sacramento River and Northern Delta. They also recommend how often these fish can be eaten to maximize their health benefits, while minimizing the health risks from mercury contamination.
Tests of mussels collected from Berkeley Marina and Rodeo Beach show no elevated health risk due to contamination in the area affected by the Cosco Busan oil spill. The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has withdrawn warnings to avoid eating mussels from those two sites and five additional Bay Area locations.
Avoid eating fish caught from the San Francisco Bay oil spill area while the State is evaluating its safety and follow safety guidelines in returning to reopened Bay Area beaches, say State public health officials who are testing fish for chemical contamination.
OEHHA has released draft “safe eating guidelines” for sport fish in the San Joaquin River Delta and the San Joaquin River extending upstream to Friant Dam (Fresno County). Several species of bass and sturgeon in those water bodies may contain elevated levels of mercury.
OEHHA accepted public comments on draft fish advisories concerning elevated levels of mercury in some fish in Lake Sonoma (Sonoma County) and Lake Mendocino (Mendocino County).
OEHHA accepted public comments on a draft fish advisory concerning elevated levels of mercury in some fish in the lower Feather River in Butte, Yuba and Sutter counties.
Fish are nutritious and good to eat, but anglers and other fish lovers need to be aware of the presence of mercury in many kinds of fish. The advisories for Lake Berryessa (Napa County) and Putah Creek (Yolo and Solano Counties) contain “safe eating guidelines” for consumption of fish from the water bodies.
An independent scientific panel approved the addition of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) to the Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.