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Report Suggests Farmed Salmon Has High PCB Levels
Published July 29, 2003
A study says the sharp rise in the consumption of farmed salmon may be posing a health threat to millions of Americans because of high levels of PCBs that have been found in limited samples of the popular fish, The Washington Post reports in its Wednesday edition.
A study by the Environmental Working Group found that 7 of 10 farmed salmon recently purchased at grocery stories in the District, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., contained concentrations of PCBs that were 16 times higher than those found in wild salmon fished from the ocean and roughly four times higher than those in beef and other seafood, the Post said.