-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Agenda Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:07:43 -0400 From: Betty Martini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Activist Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist >Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:39:30 -0400 >From: Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; U) > >Hushed-Up Research > Finds Dioxin And PCB's > In Fish 'Sticks' > By Geoffrey Lean > http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/A1909903.html > 9-19-99 > > > > Parents who give their children fish fingers are also feeding >them > two of the world's most feared poisons, according to hushed-up > government research. > > The findings, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food >and > the Department of Health, found low levels of dioxins and PCBs - > believed to cause cancer and have "gender-bending" effects - in >all > the samples of different brands of fish fingers bought in > supermarkets. > > The research revealed greater levels of the pollutants in fresh >fish > sold for the table, with the highest in oily fish, such as >herring, which > the Government has been urging people to eat for health reasons. > > Environmental Data Services, the respected pollution information > firm which has reviewed the findings, says they show that adults > would be "unwise to eat oily fish" more than once a week and that > > "children should be even more careful to limit their fish > consumption". > > But no warning was issued when the research - the first of its >kind > ever carried out by MAFF - was published in August. Not even a > press release was put out. Indeed the report was so buried among > technical documents on the internet that even a MAFF spokesman > had difficulty in finding it last week. > > News of the report will embarrass Ministers and increase alarm > about the state of Britain's food following last week's >revelations > about high levels of pesticides in vegetables, recent warnings >about > antibiotics in meat, and long-running concerns about genetically > modified produce. > > The revelations are particularly shocking because fish has long >been > promoted as a healthy, natural food. For years official bodies >have > been telling Britons to eat more oily fish to protect against >heart > disease. > > Dioxins - created during chemicals manufacture - and PCBs - once > widespread in electrical equipment - are two of the world's most > dreaded pollutants. Both are believed to cause cancer, to damage >the > nervous and immune system, and to have "gender bender" effects > which cut sperm counts, reduce fertility, disrupt hormones and > cause genital malformation. > > The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that "subtle > effects may already be occurring in the general population" even >at > routine levels of exposure. Figures given in the report - >entitled Food > Surveillance Information Sheet No.184 - suggest that children > already take in levels of the poisons from food and the >environment > that exceed the WHO upper limits, putting them at particular risk > > from the polluted fish. > > Adults are less vulnerable because they are bigger. > > > > > > ***************************************************************************** 1. Take the 60-day No Aspartame Test and send us your case history. Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, GA 30097 USA 770-242-2599 2. 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