Exclusive: Conservation group Action for Dolphins has lodged a complaint
with police, demanding the meat be removed from sale

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/japans-toxic-dolphin-meat-contains-mercury-up-to-100-times-safe-level-test-shows

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Fishermen drive bottle-nose dolphins into a net during their annual hunt
off Taiji in Japan. A conservation group has lodged a complaint demanding
dolphin meat is removed from sale. Photograph: AP

Marine conservation campaigners have lodged a complaint with police
demanding that “toxic” dolphin meat be removed from sale in Japan
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/japan>, after a test showed a sample
contained levels of mercury up to 100 times higher than the government’s
recommended safe level.

Action for Dolphins <https://www.afd.org.au/> (AFD), a nonprofit based in
Australia, filed the complaint with police in central Japan this month,
amid expert warnings that regular consumption of dolphin meat could
threaten the health of consumers.

AFD said recent testing at a laboratory in Japan revealed that one sample
bought in the country – a portion of Risso’s dolphin offal – exceeded the
government-set regulatory limit of mercury by up to 97.5 times. A second
package of Risso’s dolphin offal showed mercury levels 80 times higher than
the safe limit.

An AFD investigator based in Japan ordered Risso’s dolphin offal from the
Yahoo! Japan website on 13 October 2022. Two packages arrived on 15 October
and were sent to a laboratory in Japan, where they were tested
separately………………….

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