THE UK’S Food Standards Agency (FSA) is investigating dioxin levels in fish and shellfish. Specifically, it is checking levels in wild and farmed Atlantic salmon and farmed rainbow trout. The results, promises the FSA, will be available later this year. Well they’d better be, as fish farming is currently in a desperate state due to the recent emotive publicity about a supposed link between “farmed fish on the table” and cancer. This magazine’s coverage (17 January, p 3 and p 8) stirred me to ask John Krebs, the FSA’s chairman, what I should tell any concerned constituents.
Krebs replied that…
