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Cicadas bio-accumulate mercury [1] [1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040531214618.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040531214618

• giuliomagnifico 5y ago
  Uhm thanks, I didn’t know this, that’s not a good news (from 2004, hope other researchers have been made) but also a lot of other foods accumulate mercury (fishes for example).
• JoeyBananas 5y ago
  > The higher levels, he said, approach those in fish that have earned government warnings. So they're probably not any worse than fish
  • wavefunction 5y ago
    Yeah, probably not any worse than fish (well, specific varieties of fish that have been found to have deleterious levels of mercury and received cautions against consumption).
• amelius 5y ago
  In one specific organ?