corn/soy free poultry fed fishmeal

[U_Stormcrow]

What about the eggs?

What about them? If a laying hen consumes the mercury equivalent of 5 cans of tuna in her first productive year, and lays 300 eggs in the same period - even if, inexplicably, ALL the mercury went to her eggs, instead of mostly to the the hen's brain & kidneys as it usually does, each egg contains 1/60th of a can of tuna worth of mercury.

 

[Sally PB]

You want to live forever or something?

At the rate my body is falling apart (and it's hanging together remarkably well, actually), 90-100 years is the outside limit for me. There are reasons I'm glad I'm not 30.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

This is All.

Though he also says...

Me?

Good morning all, hope that gets the blood pumping, whatever you choose to feed your birds. Mine are telling me "its time". Back after work.

 

[Sally PB]

Me?

Once I figure out what "it" is...

The discovery is part of the game.

 

[learningaboutpoutry]

What about them? If a laying hen consumes the mercury equivalent of 5 cans of tuna in her first productive year, and lays 300 eggs in the same period - even if, inexplicably, ALL the mercury went to her eggs, instead of mostly to the the hen's brain & kidneys as it usually does, each egg contains 1/60th of a can of tuna worth of mercury.

please look at this chart:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...ens-fed-herring-meal-containing_tbl1_18704127

Am I missing something? If a single can of tuna has average 185 ppb mercury isn't that a significant amount in the egg?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

please look at this chart:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...ens-fed-herring-meal-containing_tbl1_18704127

Am I missing something? If a single can of tuna has average 185 ppb mercury isn't that a significant amount in the egg?

Yes, you are missing something.

IF {list of conditions above} INCLUDING no mercury depositing in the hen or being excreted AND it all goes into the Eggs AND its all methylmercury (the only kind that matters for long term health concerns), that's 0.000000003 g of mercury for each gram of egg (average around 55g). The reality is lower still than these assumptions.

Again, dosage is TINY. MINISCULE. INFINITISMAL. Much smaller than dosage found in numerous consumer products. such as your tuna can. FDA sets safe upper limit a 1 ppm for seafood. In other words, you would have to eat 330 eggs under the example (and assumptions) above to hit the safe limit for one egg's weight of seafood.

I submit to you that eating 330 eggs in very short order is likely to be unhealthy to you for reasons completely unrelated to potential mercury content.

 

[learningaboutpoutry]

Yes, you are missing something.

IF {list of conditions above} INCLUDING no mercury depositing in the hen or being excreted AND it all goes into the Eggs AND its all methylmercury (the only kind that matters for long term health concerns), that's 0.000000003 g of mercury for each gram of egg (average around 55g). The reality is lower still than these assumptions.

Again, dosage is TINY. MINISCULE. INFINITISMAL. Much smaller than dosage found in numerous consumer products. such as your tuna can. FDA sets safe upper limit a 1 ppm for seafood. In other words, you would have to eat 330 eggs under the example (and assumptions) above to hit the safe limit for one egg's weight of seafood.

I submit to you that eating 330 eggs in very short order is likely to be unhealthy to you for reasons completely unrelated to potential mercury content.

But isn't that research saying that there is roughly 70 ppb in a single egg? This is what I'm confused on.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

But isn't that research saying that there is roughly 70 ppb in a single egg? This is what I'm confused on.

that research is saying 70 ppb (again, parts per BILLION) in the eggs of chickens they have deliberately fed with a diet with a high mercury herring feed. Crab meal (which is what the discussion started with) is lower typical mercury content (mean and median) lower rates of inclusion, and lower % of actual crab proteins (crab meal it typically around 26% cp - their herring meal was 87% cp!), meaning lower amounts of potential mercury making its way into the hen's diet.

But ultimately, you seem to be missing the relevance of "PPB". The safe level according to FDA is 1 ppm.

I submit to you that there is an important difference between 1,000 ppb (1 ppm) and 70 ppb. I hope you would agree. I've done my best to help you compare apples, oranges, and cabbages. If its still unclear, then (without humility) I don't believe the fault lies in the instructor.

 

[Sic]

But isn't that research saying that there is roughly 70 ppb in a single egg? This is what I'm confused on.

No, you're reading conclusions incorrectly. It's a totality for eggs laid over a 52 week time period, not each individual egg.

 

[learningaboutpoutry]

No, you're reading conclusions incorrectly. It's a totality for eggs laid over a 52 week time period, not each individual egg.

thank you