{"id":10627,"date":"2014-05-17T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2014-05-17T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:44:09","slug":"alberta-health-issues-warning-after-mercury-found-in-eggs-from-2-northern-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/17\/alberta-health-issues-warning-after-mercury-found-in-eggs-from-2-northern-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Health issues warning after mercury found in eggs from 2 northern lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10632\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/381659_6ccaf555.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10632\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/381659_6ccaf555.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from geograph.org.uk\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/381659_6ccaf555.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/381659_6ccaf555-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from geograph.org.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">EDMONTON\u2014Alberta Health is advising people to cut back on eating eggs from birds nesting at two northern lakes because of mercury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">James Talbolt, chief medical health officer, says the advisory covers gull and tern eggs from Lake Athabasca and Mamawi Lake in the Peace-Athabasca delta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Talbot says children and pregnant women are at higher risk from eating the eggs, but the advisory applies to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Mercury is a potent neurotoxin and often accumulates in eggs downstream of dams or industrial development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON\u2014Alberta Health is advising people to cut back on eating eggs from birds nesting at two northern lakes because of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}