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Published online 9 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040105-10
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Farmed salmon harbour pollutants
Study may undermine salmon's status as a 'healthy' food.
Farmed salmon carry up to ten times as much cancer-causing chemicals as their wild counterparts, according to a worldwide survey of fish destined for supermarket shelves1.
The contaminants - a group of compounds called organochlorides - include a family of industrial pollutants called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
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