Carefully make whale meat lovers. Whales have levels of mercury and PCBs (chemicals like pesticides) are very high in meat and fat.

Coalition of international activists environmentalists urged the WHO issued guidelines on whale meat safety. These groups say that whale meat is contaminated with mercury and should not be eaten.

Hopefully, by the guidelines of the WHO, wants people to eat whale is reduced so that it can take action to reduce the hunting of whales.

In recent weeks, anti-whaling activists have compiled a letter to convince the WHO to act, especially trying to draw attention to the problem of small whale meat consumption and the dolphins.

Whales have the highest levels of harmful mercury that accumulates in the food chain. Small cetaceans, such as pilot whales and dolphins, which tend to like to swim in the sea contains many toxic compounds that accumulate in tissue.

Currently, WHO has no guidelines concerning consumption of whale meat, but on his website listed mercury as one of the 10 chemicals are a major problem in public health.

“It is true that pilot whales have levels of mercury and PCBs (chemicals like pesticides) are very high and the meat and fat, it is stated since 1998,” says Kate Sanderson, director of the Department of Marine Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Faroes, North Atlantic- East, as reported by the BBC News, Monday (30/08/2010).

Faroes is one place peruburuan whale. According to him, the relevant health authorities in the Faroes has issued a safety recommendation to eat whale meat.

People are advised to consume the maximum amount considered safe for health, ie not more than one or two times per month. Sanderson also consider eating whale meat and fat could still benefit mankind.

But for the anti-whaling activists, the harmful effects of mercury exceeds all of these benefits. The most harmful effects of mercury, especially for pregnant women and children.

Mercury can harm fetal brain development, can cause autism and ADHD (hyperactivity) in children, as well as the accumulation of toxins that will damage the cells of which one gene can cause changes in gene into cancer cells.