UK Food Agency Advises Against Consumption of Hijiki SeaweedBloomberg - 28 July
-- The U.K. Food Standards Agency warned people not to eat a type of seaweed served in Japanese and Korean restaurants after finding it contains high levels of a naturally occurring arsenic linked to cancer.
People shouldn't eat any hijiki -- a near-black, shredded seaweed harvested around Japan and Korea -- although occasional consumption probably wouldn't have increased cancer risks, the agency said in an e-mailed statement. U.K. regulators did a study after Canadian authorities found arsenic in hijiki....