California sues food companies over mercury levels in canned tuna

[Kadie]

California sues food companies over mercury levels in canned tuna

Monday, June 21, 2004

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(06-21) 19:08 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --

California's attorney general sued three of the nation's biggest canned tuna companies Monday, alleging they failed to warn consumers of excessive mercury in their products.

The defendants in the San Francisco Superior Court lawsuit are Tri-Union Seafoods, maker of Chicken of the Sea; Del Monte, maker of Starkist; and Bumble Bee Seafoods, maker of Bumble Bee.

Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office said tests of the companies' albacore and light tuna products found mercury at levels that, under state regulations, require warnings to consumers.

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