Dec. 2006 Women's E-news: Cheers and Jeers!
Women's E-news article about WVE's work to convince Albertsons to post adequate mercury advisories
More News to Cheer This Week
* A group of young mothers and other women in Montana succeeded in convincing Albertsons, the nation's second largest supermarket chain, to post federal government warnings about mercury hazards in all stores nationwide, according to Women's Voices for the Earth, an environmental health and justice organization in Montana and Idaho. The women took the effort after fish from their local Albertsons store in Missoula showed mercury contamination above the safe level recommended by the government. Nationally, an estimated 7 million women and children consume fish with mercury over the level considered "safe" by the Environmental Protection Agency.