What the heck is the world coming to when it's not even safe to eat the fish out of the oceans?
They're saying that the fish in certain areas of the Baltic sea are so contaminated with chemicals that they are too toxic to sell in the EU.
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According to the report, about 31 kilograms (68 pounds) of harmful polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were dumped into the semi-enclosed Baltic in
the late 1980s and early 1990s alone, accumulating in fish and contaminating the entire food-chain.
Fatty fish are especially prone to storing chemicals found in their environment and often do not comply with EU requirements for dioxins.
In 1995, Swedish authorities for instance went so far as to recommend that women of childbearing age limit their intake of Baltic herring and salmon
due to the risk posed by their often high content levels of toxic substances like furans, dioxins and PCBs.
The level of brominated flame retardants, PBDEs, found in herring is 50 times higher in the Baltic Sea than in the Atlantic, according to the WWF,
which points out that predators that eat Baltic fish also tend to have much higher levels of toxins like polybrominated biphenyls, PBBs, in their
bodies.
The only hope is to continue efforts towards tough regulation to clean the environment.
Maybe someday we can undo much of the damage people have done to the environment.
