Mother Jones magazine reports why that finger numbing fish your families are consuming remains legal in their September 2008 article "Why Mercury Tuna Remains Legal". MJ reports on Deborah Landvik-Fellner's hair losing plight, one of many health effects she suffered as a consequence of consuming canned tuna high in mercury as the FDA protects the seafood industry from mandatory labeling requirements.

Her winning lawsuit against Tri-Union Seafoods, parent company of Chicken of the Sea, establishes precedent and may begin to unravel the FDA's longstanding legal premise of federal preemption, considered tantamount to consumer fraud.