Many people like to eat wild fish because they assume that it is healthier than, for example, a beef steak.
However, a research team from the USA has now made a disgusting discovery that contradicts this.
Researchers from USA discover chemicals in wild fish
they provide in a study notes that persons who eat a single freshwater fishcaught in a river or lake in the US, just as well could drink water for a month which with particularly durable and potentially contaminated with harmful chemicals. They found an average of 9.5 micrograms of per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) per kilogram of wild fish.
These chemicals are primarily found in products such as shampoos, makeup, coatings and packaging. PFAS decay only very slowly and are therefore also “eternal chemicals“. These have been detected in water and air for years.
Because they are so difficult to decompose, they accumulate over time in the air, soil, lake and river water, food, and even in the body. They are considered dangerous to health and are associated with Liver damage, high cholesterol, decreased immune responses and various types of cancer connected.
“Greatest Chemical Threat to Humanity”
Between 2013 and 2015, the researchers analyzed around 500 samples of fish that they had fished from lakes and rivers. In doing so, they noticed that Wild fish contained 278 times more PFAS than commercially farmed fish.
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“I can’t see any fish anymorewithout immediately thinking about his exposure to PFAS,” says study leader David Andrews. He is particularly angry about the companies that made or used PFAS and “contaminated the globe without taking responsibility for it.”
Patrick Byrne, a pollution expert at John Moores University in Liverpool, describes PFAS as “probably the greatest chemical threat to humanity in the 21st centuryAlthough he was not involved in the study, he sees it as “the first evidence of widespread transmission of PFAS directly from fish to humans.”
Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden recently submitted a joint proposal to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to restrict PFAS. They demand that PFAS be adequately controlled throughout the EU.
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