Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Repeating the Farmed Salmon PCB Smear ... Again

Over at US News and World Report, environmental blogger Maura Judkis is passing along a list of "10 Risky Foods," that have been compiled by Sprig, one of those helpful environmental groups trying to create some hysteria in the wake of the recent peanut butter recall.

As it turns out, we've dealt with this issue before, most recently in January. Not to put too fine a point on it, but there's a greater risk from PCBs from salted butter, homemade brown gravy and -- wait for it -- roasted chicken. Mitigating the risk further is the fact that Americans consume so little seafood, setting up a situation where overall diet of Americans would be better off if they consumed more, not less, fish.