06-06-2015, 06:38 AM
[quote Jedidiah]I'm curious about what makes you think that while the PCBs accumulate in fish, they won't accumulate in you? Do you drink more water than fish? The fact is that it accumulates in fat and leeches back out very slowly, if at all.[/quote]
The answer of course, is that it slowly does. However, as your own paper demonstrates, different government agencies cannot agree on what is safe or not. EPA says 20 PPb, the FDA says 2000! I'm pretty comfortable that eating fish below the strictest standard is pretty likely to be safe.
Now here's a question for you. PCB's are extremely stable chemically and last in the environment for over 100,000 years. How do you know that the food you eat from other sources is not also contaminated with PCB's? If you are freaked out about UL fish, your own paper demonstrates that you better not eat any fish from a store or restaurant because the average amount and allowable PCB's are an order of magnitude higher. But what about other things? The Great lakes are fairly highly contaminated with PCB's. Water from them is used to hydrate a large acreage of crops in the nations midsection. Then that grain and soybeans are fed to food producing animals. The stuff could potentially be in almost all of our food in some level. It will obviously bioaccumulate in you. What are you to do?
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The answer of course, is that it slowly does. However, as your own paper demonstrates, different government agencies cannot agree on what is safe or not. EPA says 20 PPb, the FDA says 2000! I'm pretty comfortable that eating fish below the strictest standard is pretty likely to be safe.
Now here's a question for you. PCB's are extremely stable chemically and last in the environment for over 100,000 years. How do you know that the food you eat from other sources is not also contaminated with PCB's? If you are freaked out about UL fish, your own paper demonstrates that you better not eat any fish from a store or restaurant because the average amount and allowable PCB's are an order of magnitude higher. But what about other things? The Great lakes are fairly highly contaminated with PCB's. Water from them is used to hydrate a large acreage of crops in the nations midsection. Then that grain and soybeans are fed to food producing animals. The stuff could potentially be in almost all of our food in some level. It will obviously bioaccumulate in you. What are you to do?
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