Advisers urging caution with tuna

Sunday, July 28, 2002

BELTSVILLE, Md. -- Pregnant women who eat too much tuna risk exposing their unborn babies' developing brains to possibly harmful mercury levels, but there is no need for the women to cut the highly nutritious fish out of their diets altogether, a government advisory panel said.

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