Thread: Farmed salmon
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Old January 10th, 2004, 12:43 AM
Tim Lysyk
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Default Farmed salmon

Svend Tang-Petersen wrote:

What they were concerned about is a chemical called dioxin. However the
latest I heard on the
news last night was that the measured amounts were so small that it made
any kinds of statictics
too inaccurate to be something to be really concerned about. (I think the
latter statement came from
the FDA).

Sounds more like a ploy to keep people from buying Scandinavian farm grown
salmon and instead by
wild fish caught here.


I don't know, the link that Mike Connor posted suggested the problem is
quite real, and severe. I don;t think it is a ploy at all.

Tim Lysyk