RESEARCH ARTICLE Seafood consumption and n J

CU 420708, Rochester 14642-0708, New York Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleMethylmercury (MeHg) toxicity became known after in-cidents in Japan and Iraq involving exceptionally high-level human exposure resulted in severe neurological deficits in fetuses born to mothers who were among the exposed [1,2]. Consumption of fish and other seafoods people [3]. While high MeHg exposures have been shown to cause significant neurological deficits, whether or not the lower MeHg exposures, typically experienced by most people, result in any adverse effects remains unclear. Pre-natal and postnatal exposures have been associated with adverse neurodevelopmental effects, however the results are conflicting. In the Faroe Islands cohort, children with a mean cord blood Hg of 22.9 μg/L were found to have Hg-associated deficits in the domains of language, mem