the baltic is one of the most polluted seas in the world. and some of the species they catch there have become toxic contaminating the pellets but also the entire food chain. in sweden i have an appointment with jan isaacson he's a greenpeace activist. he brings me to a fish up to buy fish caught in the region. so i'd like some herring and sound like something. before selling them to us the fishmonger is going to say something rather surprising she's warning us about her

own merchandise it's not there in front of me says post if you think you should be careful and not very much of a way to pay more than at the most my son and it's the same thing with you. and if you're pregnant you shouldn't eat the fish from day one to get oil. if she gives this warning it is thanks to the work of jan in the swedish government which has started giving public health forming against eating baltic fish especially fatty fish like salmon or herring. that contains high levels all signs and it's one of the most powerful toxic pollutants not that we know all today and extremely low levels or else and it's going to have a face on your home a form of systems that's. close counselor. to

find the source of this pollution we don't have to look very far. so this is an astronomer this morning room. just an hour's drive outside of stockholm to this chemical plant which turns swedish trees into paper. paper mills like this is historically one of the main sources of dioxin pollution so. it's quite natural to find it's in here and high concentrations here. these chemicals then move up the food chain. the more fatty the fish the more the pollutants are absorbed into the flesh some such as pesticides or b.c.b.s. are never eliminated and are called persistent organic pollutants. moving up the food chain they concentrate more and more in the fatty tissues. at the end of the

chain a kilo of tuna or salmon is much more toxic than a kilo of small fish. consequently some fatty fish from the baltic have become unfit for consumption. so they are harder to find on the consumer's plate. so they find themselves in heavy demand in the market for making dry pellet fish feed. and that's where the toxicity builds up . back to in the dry pellet feed plant. to process the fatty fish finials and cooks them in these large ovens. at the end of the line he obtains two very different products firstly protein powder and second place fish oil. these two ingredients. or used to come up with the finished product and each of

them in their own way will contribute to the contamination of the pellets. let's begin with the oil. by concentrating in the fatty parts excel or it's the build up of the pollutants. this is why farmed fish are more susceptible than wild fish. protein powders in turn pose another problem even worse. it's at the end of the line that i find it in this large chemical container. the antioxidant ends up in the protein near. it's called a fox you can. talk secure a product that fin nielsen uses extensively but apparently he doesn't know anything about. what is it used for what happens if you don't.

i don't know what it is i just know i have to put it in. why is this mysterious chemicals used and does it pose a threat to consumers. this is the story of one of the best kept secrets of the food processing industry. at first glance a toxic eon has no place in a food factory. the product was registered in one nine hundred fifty nine by monsanto the giant u.s. chemical company in the category of pesticides. it was used to treat rubber but also fruits and vegetables. its use is strictly regulated and limited. what is it doing in fish feed. the answer can be found in switzerland in geneva in this anti-fraud laboratory. two

years ago patrick edgar and d.d. or telly were surprised to find a toxic teen in the flesh of farmed fish in extremely high levels. well above the fifty micrograms per kilogram permitted in foodstuffs. a reference value is fifty so we're looking at this level. and we'll see that in our fish the measurements are ten to twenty times more than the standard because concentrations are between five hundred and eight hundred or nearly a thousand micrograms per kilogram have been found. so they're extremely higher than the norm so they're a lot higher than the norm we don't see that in wild fish this is logical since they're not fed fish we are on the other hand all the fish coming from the aquaculture industry so are contaminated with the king. before them nobody had ever thought to look for a toxic eating fish and for good reason the product is supposed to protect fruits

and vegetables but meal manufacturers have found another use for it. i don't know in fact it's put into the fish meal which prevent the fat much at present from becoming ran thus ensuring the quality of the fats i got us the problem is that the manufacturers of the dry meal pellets did not notify the health authorities of the change in use. the result that toxic in levels are strictly controlled in fruits and vegetables and even meat but not in fish. it's paradoxical that there are standards set for cattle and chickens but no standards for fish even more so you can find standards set for kangaroos for reptiles but none at all for fish. and patrick edgar made an even stranger discovery. the effects of it talks a keen on human health of actually never been evaluated by the us as a european food safety agency. i mean look and

a lot of things are missing or you took a hard look at the essays resort concerning a long term toxicity and aspects related to cancer and no valid studies have been submitted concerning the levels of toxicity in reproduction or fetal development sure you did look no valid studies have been submitted on neuro toxicity in this is it the you know after all e.f.-s. a could not even establish an acceptable daily intake level because it claims it was not able to calculate it due to insufficient data sets if such a substance is to be introduced to the marketplace it certainly shouldn't have been done using such weak study it is good to see for. only one serious study has been published it comes from a norwegian researcher. one not that we have found almost nothing is it except it is this this which was written in norway. i decided to track down this researcher. she defended her thesis in bergen and western norway in this state research

institute the n.i. f.e.'s however since then she's lost her job there so i found her at home. working with a toxic in victoria bone at first discovered that nobody not even the manufacturer monsanto had any idea of the effects of this chemical on human health. i think in fact no one asked if it was a safe product say it's false they just assumed that it wouldn't pose a problem but that's not the case now being investigated you know but this that's crazy you're not supposed to put something you know food without investigation not yes. after several years of work she made six major discoveries concerning this product each one more disturbing than the others. if they go

through the i discovered that the foxy queen has the power to cause the blood brain barrier to know about. this barrier has a very important function brain that it exists as a physical means to protect the brain from talk six substances. barrier for the bill ticks or a substance is no foreign substance to the human body is supposed to be able to pass through it into the brain this is. yes so that's really bad yes. of course and this is covered should have been published as quickly as possible so that's possible yes. every day opinion brain contamination but also probable carcinogenic of facts. the problem is that over the last few years victoria bone hasn't been able to publish any of her results in

a scientific journal. you know. because i no longer employed at the institute i lost my status as a researcher and suddenly i didn't have the right to publish my scientific research . at the end of her thesis despite her many discoveries victoria bone had indeed left the state research institute. voluntarily. but i was about to discover that the reality was a bit different from the official version. because i because i finally decided that i no longer wanted to deal with this question anymore father had this family. you have to say you have six vacation ready you seem like you want to. since frustration. didn't like. if you take that out then they

can talk just about this. off camera victoria boom confirms that she had been pressured and there were even some attempts to falsify some of her results. in the hope of finding a job and one day publishing her research she chose not to denounce these practices in the media. but others have done so before her because she was not the first to been forced out. in two thousand and six this woman. also a researcher at the end i f e s had also measured the presence of hazardous substances in salmon. in a norwegian newspaper she accused her superiors and the ministry of fisheries of pressuring her and falsifying her findings.

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