Fish Oil levels of PCB
Health News Today about Disclose PCB Levels in Fish Oil.From CBC news,fish oil dietary supplements contain unsafe and illegal levels of the carcinogenic chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. The plaintiffs are two citizen environmentalists and the Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation.
Their initial testing found that levels of PCBs in supplements in popular fish oil products varied wildly, from about 12 nanograms per recommended dose in the best performer to more than 850 nanograms in the worst performer - a factor of 70. But the suit claims that all of the manufacturers are in violation of Proposition 65 for not disclosing any non-zero PCB levels in their products. The plaintiffs and their attorneys claim that that labels saying “Screened for PCBs” or “Treated to Remove PCBs” are especially problematic, because those labels imply - falsely - that PCBs have been removed entirely. They also believe that the manufacturers already have extensive data on the amount of PCBs present in their product.
