Great Lakes fish are highly contaminated with chemicals from the polluted water. Forty-one species of wildlife in the Great Lakes area have high rates of deformities, reduced fertility and reduced reproduction caused by hormone imbalances changing mating preferences. In 1979, some of the children born to women in Taiwan who consumed cooking oil accidentally contaminated with high levels of pcbs were found to suffer from an array of problems - physical and neurological. Among the problems were male children with small genitals. If you would not want to drink that water, you probably wouldn t want to eat fish caught there.
Farmers have the highest rate of prostrate cancer.
It is part of the FDA Total Diet Study. On average there are 2 findings per sample. This ranges from 0 findings to over 20 findings in a given sample. The reports on their current site contain only 18 samples of each food. In order to save you time and effort, we are going to make available a sample of some of the information.