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To: maceng2 who wrote (6)	1/12/2004 4:59:12 PM
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Char farmer questions source of fish warning WebPosted Jan 12 2004 01:49 PM CST north.cbc.ca WHITEHORSE - The owner of a Yukon fish farm wants more details of a study published in a science journal in the United States last week that has raised concerns about the safety of farmed salmon. John Rose of Icy Waters fish farm wants details of study The study suggests farmed salmon contain 10 times more PCBs and other toxins than wild salmon. Many of those toxins are believed to lead to cancer. But John Rose, the president of the Icy Waters char fish farm disagrees. He would like details of the source of the American study. "Ultimately fish is still safe to eat," he said. "I think the negative affect of the very ubiquitous nature of PCBs in our diet has to be reviewed. "It's one of those things you take with a grain of salt," he added. "Because you're never sure who the source of the material is." Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says farmed salmon is safe and that it falls within U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety limits. Icy Waters char farm in Whitehorse Rose says he has no choice but to trust the regulators but he says more work needs to be done. "I'm more concerned about the regulatory bodies," he said. "What are they looking at and do they have an actual number of what's safe for the public to be eating? We'll obviously have to live within those numbers. "Right now they're saying the levels indicated in the study are so very low that it's not important, but nobody knows. What is the actual safe amount?" Rose says it's too early to predict how the study will affect his business. His business feeds fish meal, the same food given to farm-fed salmon to its char. "We assume because the product is coming from our feed company that these are hitting the regulations that Health Canada dictates, and they are and as long as they are we're happy with it. But again if the consumer demands that we live to a higher standard than what Health Canada suggests the industry would be foolish not to live by that." Icy Waters sells most of its char to restaurants in Vancouver and Toronto.