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Grocery Stores: Post Mercury Signs Outside California Too!

A number of grocery stores have joined Oceana's Green List by by posting signs about the FDA mercury advice at their seafood counters. Customers at stores in California get this benefit because of a "right to know" law but many stores only post the signs at their California locations and not elsewhere. Shouldn't everyone get this information?

Many families need more information about mercury in seafood. An EPA scientist has estimated that one in six women has enough mercury in her body to pose neurological risks to her developing fetus and seafood is the primary way people are exposed to mercury.

Please select all the Red List stores where you shop and your message will go to all of them.

Albertsons
IGA

Sam's Club
Save-A-Lot

SuperTarget
Wal-Mart Supercenter

Subject:

Dear [Store],

As a customer of one of your stores, I am writing to ask you to post signs about the FDA mercury advice at all of your seafood counters. I have learned from Oceana that a number of grocery companies, like Safeway, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, have started posting this important information nationwide to help customers make informed decisions about which seafood to buy. I have also learned that customers at stores here in California get this benefit because of a "right to know" law but your chain is not posting signs outside of the state of California. Since an EPA scientist has estimated that one in six women has enough mercury in her body to pose neurological risks to her developing fetus and seafood is the primary route of exposure, it is clear that families need more information about this issue. I urge you to join Oceana's Green List of grocers who protect their customers from mercury. You can find the FDA advice at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html and information about Oceana's Green List at http://www.oceana.org/greenlist.