Re: Question for Sue about mercury in farm Salmon

[Guest guest]

Darn, thanx for that link Sue. I wonder how honest Fairway is (where

I shop). I also get VitalChoice canned wild salmon and I hope they're

hoenst. It definitely tastes a lot better than regular canned salmon.

YOu can buy it online. I give up. Who knows if my organic chicken and

meat are even that. There was a scandal a few years ago with a big

health food store here--they were marketing regular meat as organic

and it wasn't.

Very disappointing.

>

>

> > > Finally, Cheney's report of the study in which all 13 ICM

> patients whose heart

> > > muscle biopsies showed them to be 23,000 times higher in

mercury

> than the

> > > controls floors me.

> >

> > Hi ,

> >

> > We take the mercury warnings seriously. We used to eat a lot of

> salmon, but

> > when we read that farm salmon was high in mercury we switched to

> relatively

> > mercury-free wild Alaskan salmon. Or so we thought.

> >

> > In yesterday's New York Times there's an article that suggests

> that most

> > stores claiming to sell wild salmon are actually selling farm

> salmon. In

> > the New York City area, they did tests on " wild salmon " from

> several stores

> > and found that only one sample was genuine, wild salmon. Samples

> from six

> > other stores proved to be farm raised.

> >

> > I have noticed that what passes for wild salmon in our town

> appears to be

> > suspiciously orange.

> >

> > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/dining/10salmon.html?

> >

> > Sue ,

> > Upstate New York

[Guest guest]

>Sue, can you give us a link about farm Salmon having more mercury?

Hi ,

I can't find a link, so I was probably wrong. (Not the first time.) Here's

a roundup of interesting links on fish and fish oils, including links that

claim that farmed fish have more PCBs and several other contaminants, but I

couldn't find a link that addressed mercury specifically.

http://qualitycounts.com/fptoxins_in_fish_oil.htm

Sue ,

Upstate New York