Not an educated opinion, but I suspect that a deficiency in a necessary
micromineral would be more detrimental than a few stray molecules of PCB
or whatever. According to one site I visited recently, arsenic is a
necessary micromineral involved in the metabolism of methionine. You
could have knocked me over with a feather. Here's the link:


http://www.phys.com/b_nutrition/03encyclopedia/02terms/m/minerals.html

Of course, there is all that whale piss to think about...

Bill Dooley

Don Wiss wrote:

> But does not sea salt also contain all the pollutants that are in our
> oceans? And if Celtic salt is from the Brittany area then even more pollution.