but that's just my opinion. 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 fish up to buy fish caught in the region. so i'd like some herring and sound like something. but before selling them to us

the fishmonger is going to say something rather surprising as she's warning us about her own merchandise it's not very funny these supposed to caring you should be careful and not very much the way they were then in the most class and it's the same thing with you. and if you're pregnant you shouldn't eat the fish from the baltic at all. if she gives this warning it is thanks to the work of jan and the swedish government which has started giving public health forming against eating baltic fish especially fatty fish like salmon or herring. it contains high levels all signs and it's one of the most powerful toxic pollutants. 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. counsellor.

to find the source of this pollution we don't have to look very far. so this is a let's try on this morning. 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. 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 a dry pellet feed plant. to process the fed 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 are 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 and it accelerates the buildup 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 powder here. it's called a fox and. it talks a q 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 ian 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. 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 will see that in our fish the measurements are ten to twenty times more than the standard because concentrations are between five hundred 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 meal on the other hand all the fish coming from the aquaculture industry 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 fishmeal which prevent the fat much at present from becoming rancid all that's ensuring the quality like and the fats are 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 than you can find a standard set for kangaroos for reptiles but none at all for fish. and patrick enter made an even stranger discovery. the effects of it talks a keen on human health and actually never been evaluated by the yes as a the. european food safety agency. i mean look and

a lot of things are missing or you take a hard look at the essays report concerning 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 either the you don't after all say could not even establish an acceptable daily intake level because it claims it was not able to calculate it due to insufficient data she sits 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. we have found almost nothing is it except it is the 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 you know when asked if it was a safe product say it's worth they just assumed that it wouldn't pose a problem but that's not the case now being investigated you know this that's crazy you're not supposed to put something you know food without you the suggestion 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. that it exists as a physical means to protect the brain from toxic substances. barrier for in the baltics 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. everyday opinion brain contamination but also probable course not janica 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. what do you know. because i'm no longer employed at the institute and 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 any more father having this family. 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 and that. off camera victoria bone 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 had accused her superiors and the ministry of fisheries of pressuring her and falsifying her findings.

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full picture of today's news no longer than a month from around the globe. local. t.v. . four years ago research funding for a toxic ina was cut by the norwegian ministry official res. and according to kurt this decision may have been made under pressure from the minister of fisheries herself. she is also to author of the food security system that's controlling to feed the fish from diseases and that she controlled stiff authorities who control of all things that has to do with fish for me in norway and she uses her powar in a bad manner so she gives them sort of to take down his fish this decease take it

don't for one two two so we can sell the fish so we'll lose money if we have to sell the fish so they sell their fish that's infected and then i'm sick that's never been before she is a rotten piece of and this story. to verify these accusations i decided to speak with this minister. in brussels in the aisles of a trade show i have an appointment with her for a five minute interview but the time allotted to me will be much shorter. than the people at the new face of the city are trying to do some research about the substance called it took six feet but this it will have the money completes you to fund some research about the toxic we. don't know i know. that i have three i think and i mean we are here to look at the phoenix issue

that's like i said i think with the quickly the communications officer puts an end to the interview with me i'm certain like that than anything else and my question is i think that that saturday night a book a book larry takes. the minister does not wish to talk about. she claims to know nothing about it question. however if we take the time to check her c.v. which is posted on the ministry's website we learn that she worked for four years as a consultant for. the world leader in dry fishmeal just before being hired as a consultant to the ministry of fisheries. since then she has held dozens of jobs in the salmon industry and has even led one of the main lobbies the f.h.l. professional union and according to kurt. there is still some missing information from her impressive c.v. . the management authorities have their own interests

in fish for me she's only eight percent of a big fish farm and her director is only twenty percent of another fish farm so this is what we call corruption and this is like the italian mafia. the accusation may be outrageous but the facts are there hidden by a simple financial arrangement it was enough for me to examine the records of this company called j m j invest. the minister is the major shareholder. and j m j invest actually possesses more than ten percent of a major norwegian salmon farm of which several other shareholders are members of the minister's family. toxic fish researchers muzzled a minister with a conflict of interest i left norway a little surprised by what i had just learned. but my investigation is not quite

finished yet. i still have to discover how these fish sometimes make it to our plates without us even knowing it. all it takes is for a manufacturer to decide to discreetly mislabel a product exactly as what happened in the horsemeat scandal. in blown so male the main french fishing port some companies are not happy just selling fish. they also produce a product totally unknown to consumers which are widely used in prepared dishes. this day a shipment of cod from the baltic arrives on one side to fillet the piling up on the other the waste which will not last. the season what are you for living here is a small college. who sells all works for

a company specializing in the processing of fish waste field office right up for you so what is the cotton that has been moved in this case it's a cod where you see that there's still a lot of flesh that can be extracted by pumping for use in processed foods such as riette for example of the like. so it gives added value to what was previously regarded as waste only a few years ago. and today it's become a highly valued resource. because it's. highly valued and most importantly not very expensive these remains which are processed into our prepared meals are bought by loose for less than fifteen cents a kilo. some of them are loaded into these refrigerated containers others go directly into these dump trucks and are transported to this plant where nothing is lost.

firstly the fish skins are recovered for use in the cosmetic industry. as to the heads and the flesh that remains attached to the bones they are sent to be processed in this workshop. but when we arrived all of the machines had been turned off. even though it's pretty clear that they had recently been in use but just before our visit to. boss of the plant ordered the production line to be shut down . so if the workshop for sage's doesn't bother him he's just afraid that consumers would be shocked if they saw what the pulp looks like. we still managed to film what the boss wanted to avoid being shown with a hidden camera in another workshop. in so this pope machine in action crushing the waste and extracting the shapeless mash and not very appetising substance which is called the pulp. once

washed here's what the finished product looks like this one was made from the remains of a fatty fish truck. full can that be used for for example it's usually used in prepared meals but also in a lot of pet foods in what. what is any form for feeding dogs and cats. the advantage of this product is first and foremost its price the pope sells for around one year or thirty per kilo ten times cheaper than a fish delay so it's really in demand for food manufacturers especially since they are not required to indicate on their products labels that they contain paul. a plant which makes prepared meals in western france. this morning fraud control teams make a surprise inspection. mr emerick head

of the social protection department hello welcome. joe michel and if he came to inspect the stocks of this famous brand food processing company and this cotton potato pie he wants to check its composition. so. this is the list of ingredients you have for water cod twenty three percent made up exclusively of cod and salt so the professionals job is to determine if there is indeed twenty three percent of the pure product in this municipal jury. to determine just how much your product in a manner of speaking when a prepared meal is labeled for example made with cod without adding the words fish the way it is usually made with pulp. but. when you cut off the edges and you take sample pieces from the middle. only shell emily wants to check

that the composition of the pulp block corresponds to what is indicated on the label on. the shell before so here we have a block of fish fish suitable you're just going to compress because it's a frozen product so obviously it's easier to hide other fish species you know just by mixing them in with the cod and it would be if they were presented as fillets. of course it was until today. after the horsemeat scandal fish is also in the sights of the fraud control department. the samples are sent for d.n.a. analysis to the must say national analysis laboratory led by funding leaks out. thank you thank dental find fish is a long and complex process. according to a recent u.s. study one out of three fish labels is misleading and that's the case with our pups

and i go there to specify. the it says there are several things and. this shows there's a part of pacific cod where would you and there are three parts of alaskan politics as we see here on the alaskan pollock comparison sample scan and also roughly speaking we have pacific cod and alaskan yes but alaskan pollock hasn't. you mention it as an ingredient you know so that's illegal says if you know no money it's an anomaly not to have the professional explain the possible origin of the alaskan pollock in the pulp of this raw material. shouldn't exclude the possibility of the accidental origin of the fish or simply the fact that alaskan pollock is cheaper than the pacific cod which could be a case of fraud. and you also have another kind of possible fraud which would be passing off the farmed fish as a wild one also wash. in place of caught. in pulp

species substitutions are much more frequent and pose a problem of traceability. today the entire fish industry may be affected by these health concerns. so much so that some health professionals are completely changing their viewpoints concerning fish. to maurice a is an oncologist today he is hosting an awareness raising workshop on the causes of cancer for these women all of whom are affected by the disease. our goal is not to go after the guilty parties but rather to take measures that will help prevent recurrence. and among the many causes that may lead to cancer fish has become one of his concerns. for the simple advice don't eat much big fish like salmon or tuna you know if not more than once or twice a month if you should eat small fish which an omega three s. if possible for someone who has breast cancer i would recommend small fish but it

wasn't. eating fish may affect my health is that what you're saying yes yes before it was good because of its measurable constituents that you know maybe three piece in particular and vitamin d. . you weren't given a sitting full of cod liver oil going to childhood for nothing because it was rich in vitamin d. and. it was beneficial to your health that it enabled but suddenly we find fish that is full of pesticides and mercury and if it's fish from finland we know that there is a lot of radioactivity still twenty years after chernobyl but the fossil so it's fish that shouldn't eat and it's fish that's full of radioactivity mercury amid heavy metals p.c.-b.s.d. dioxins etc etc it's just not the same anymore so the message has to be different because unfortunately things have changed. for thirty years the french health authorities had encouraged unlimited fish consumption. this summer they lowered

their recommendations. no more than two servings of fish per week one way to prevent or anticipate what could be our next food scandal. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right big story the facts are that same top there is a reason they don't want to know more than the phrase. now let's break the set. clean more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if there isn't

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