Monday, December 1, 2008

Groups Clash Over Organic Standards for Fish, Milk

A USDA panel has approved the first ever standards for organic fish, but environmentalists and consumer activists are not happy with the results.

The problem with fish is that many of them, such as salmon, eat other fish. Even if they’re organically raised in every other way but eat wild fish, there’s no guarantee that the fish they eat are free of mercury and PCBs.

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