Re: IBD & Dioxins Link?

> Dioxins, a persistent organic pollutant

On would think, our governments would be monitoring dioxins in various
foods high in animal fats to ensure public safety. The following
re****t by Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and by the Heinz
Family Foundation shows otherwise.

=46rom www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7626/7626.pdf

We re****ted recently that several organic contaminants occurred at
elevated concentrations in farmed Atlantic salmon compared with
concentrations of the same contaminants in wild Pacific
salmon [Hites et al. Science 303:226=96229 (2004)]. We also found that
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxaphene, dieldrin, dioxins, and
polybrominated diphenyl ethers occurred at higher concentrations
in European farm-raised salmon than in farmed salmon from North and
SouthAmerica. Health risks (based on a quantitative cancer risk
*****sment) associated with consumption of farmed salmon contaminated
with PCBs, toxaphene, and dieldrin were higher than risks
associated with exposure to the same contaminants in wild salmon. Here
we present information on cancer and noncancer health risks of
exposure to dioxins in farmed and wild salmon. The analysis is based
on a tolerable intake level for dioxin-like compounds established by
the World Health Organization and on risk estimates for human exposure
to dioxins developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Consumption of farmed salmon at relatively low frequencies results in
elevated exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds with
commensurate elevation in estimates of health risk ...