{"id":54421,"date":"2023-04-18T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/18\/japans-toxic-dolphin-meat-contains-mercury-up-to-100-times-safe-level-test-shows"},"modified":"2023-04-18T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:17:53","slug":"japans-toxic-dolphin-meat-contains-mercury-up-to-100-times-safe-level-test-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54421","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s \u2018toxic\u2019 dolphin meat contains mercury up to 100 times safe level, test shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Conservation group Action for Dolphins has lodged a complaint with police, demanding the meat be removed from sale<\/p>\n<p>Marine conservation campaigners have lodged a complaint with police demanding that \u201ctoxic\u201d dolphin meat be removed from sale in Japan, after a test showed a sample contained levels of mercury up to 100 times higher than the government\u2019s recommended safe level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afd.org.au\/\">Action for Dolphins<\/a> (AFD), a nonprofit based in Australia, filed the complaint with police in central Japan this month, amid expert warnings that regular consumption of dolphin meat could threaten the health of consumers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/18\/japans-toxic-dolphin-meat-contains-mercury-up-to-100-times-safe-level-test-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Conservation group Action for Dolphins has lodged a complaint with police, demanding the meat be removed from saleMarine conservation campaigners have lodged a complaint with police demanding that \u201ctoxic\u201d dolphin meat be removed from sale in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1650,65,1019,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolphins","category-environment","category-fishing","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421\/revisions\/54422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}