"Paleogal"

> If this is true, are fish oil supplements also contaminated???

Most animals will incase toxins in fat to isolate them.
This means that concentrated oils will contain more
toxins.

It may not be as contaminated as the oil they are
feeding to farmed fish, I personally don't know...but
any time you concentrate an animal fat, you are going
to ingest more toxins. This goes for any fat source, too,
such as milk or cow's butter.

Here is part of an article to which I posted the link
on this list not too long ago:

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-salmon9dec09,0,6535872.story
Scientists in the United States are far more concerned about a pair of
preliminary studies - one in British Columbia and one in Great Britain -
that showed farmed salmon accumulate more cancer-causing PCBs and toxic
dioxins than wild salmon.

Scientists in the U.S. are trying to determine the extent of the
contamination in salmon and what levels are safe for human consumption.

The culprit appears to be the salmon feed, which contains higher
concentrations of fish oil - extracted from sardines, anchovies and other
ground-up fish - than wild salmon normally consume. Man-made contaminants,
PCBs and dioxins make their way into the ocean and are absorbed by marine
life.

The pollutants accumulate in fat that is distilled into the concentrated
fish oil, which, in turn, is a prime ingredient of the salmon feed.

Farmed salmon are far fattier than their wild cousins, although they do not
contain as much of the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids.


Jay