Predicting mercury contamination in the marine food chain, via coastal water, not sediment
A Dartmouth-University of Connecticut study of the northeast United States shows that methylmercury concentrations in estuary waters — not in sediment as commonly thought — are the best way to predict mercury contamination in the marine food chain.
February 20, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: best-way, commonly-thought, connecticut, diet, estuary-waters, northeast, predict-mercury, public-health, the-marine, the-northeast, united, united-states
Fish acquire more mercury at depth due to photochemical reactions breaking down mercury at the ocean surface
Mercury – a common industrial toxin – is carried through the atmosphere before settling on the ocean and entering the marine food web…
August 27, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: before-settling, common-industrial, entering-the-marine, marine, ocean, the-atmosphere, the-marine, the-ocean
Vegetable-fed salmon still yield healthful fat
Vegetable ingredients can replace much of the fish proteins and fish oil used in conventional feeds for farmed salmon and salmon trout — without sacrificing the health benefits of consumer products.
February 10, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adverse-effect, effect-on-fish, effects, farmed-salmon, fatty-acids, fish, health, marine, nutrition, nutritional, oncalldiets, the-marine, the-nutritional, vegetable-feed
