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Archive Home > 2006 > January > 26 > Weighing the risks

Weighing the risks

Many experts say health benefits of farmed salmon outweigh contamination danger

By Markian Hawryluk / The Bulletin
January 26, 2006

In 2001, an article published in the environmental science journal Chemosphere launched a controversy regarding the safety of farmed salmon. The authors claimed salmon farming techniques increased the levels of industrial contaminants in the fish to unsafe levels. Subsequent studies seemed to....

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