The U.S. Tuna Foundation is deeply disappointed in the editorial staff of SELF magazine for publishing Lawrence Goodman's unsupportable allegations about the safety of canned tuna in its July 2007 issue. Drawing heavily on research first conducted 20 years ago, Goodman virtually ignored successive and independent, peer-reviewed studies that are less than one year old in prestigious medical publications such as The Lancet and the Journal of the American Medical Association and unequivocally demonstrated that eating fish, including canned tuna, is beneficial to all consumers — especially women and children.

SELF's readers deserve an accurate and up-to-date portrayal of the safety and health benefits of canned tuna. Instead they received a mix of cherry-picked information, inaccuracies and innuendos that could lead its readers to avoid canned tuna, an important food source the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association and the Institutes of Medicine all agree Americans should be eating more of — not less.

For more information about Goodman's Sins of Omission and what SELF's readers didn't get to hear about fish, like canned tuna, click here.

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