WWF Study Highlights Chemical Contamination of Food

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Friday, 22 September 2006

The World Wildlife Fund has released today results of a new study entitled 'Chain of contamination: the food link'. The study is a snapshot of chemical contamination of the food chain and tested 27 samples of different food items - dairy products, meat, fish, bread, honey and olive oil. These were purchased in supermarkets in seven EU countries and the samples were analysed for eight different groups of man-made chemicals - organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated chemicals, phthalates, organotins, alkylphenols and artificial musks. The food testing results found potentially harmful synthetic chemicals in all of the analysed foods, ranging from phthalates in olive oil, cheeses and meats, banned organochlorine pesticides in fish and reindeer meat, artificial musks and organotins in fish and flame retardants in meats and cheeses.
Go to http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000002998.asp to read full article.
Source: www.soilassociation.org