{"id":63738,"date":"2018-07-11T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=63738"},"modified":"2018-07-11T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:01:00","slug":"fishy-chemicals-farmed-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/fishy-chemicals-farmed-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishy Chemicals in Farmed Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/international-cooperation\/persistent-organic-pollutants-global-issue-global-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Persistent organic pollutants<\/a>\u2014or POPs\u2014skulk around the environment threatening human health through direct contact, inhalation, and most commonly, eating contaminated food. As people are becoming more aware of their food\u2019s origin, new research at the University of Pittsburgh suggests it might be just as important to pay attention to the origin of your food\u2019s food.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Chemical Society<\/a> journal <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/journal\/esthag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Science &amp; Technology<\/a> featured research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.pitt.edu\/CarlaNg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carla Ng<\/a>, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Pitt\u2019s Swanson School of Engineering, on the cover of its <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/toc\/esthag\/52\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 19 issue<\/a>. Dr. Ng tracked the presence of a class of synthetic flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which were once a popular additive to increase fire resistance in consumer products such as electronics, textiles, and plastics<\/p>\n<p>(DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/doi:%2010.1021\/acs.est.8b00146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1021\/acs.est.8b00146<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and much of Europe banned several PBDEs in 2004 because of environmental and public health concerns,\u201d says Dr. Ng. \u201cPBDEs can act as endocrine disruptors and cause developmental effects. Children are particularly vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persistent organic pollutants\u2014or POPs\u2014skulk around the environment threatening human health through direct contact, inhalation, and most commonly, eating contaminated food. As people are becoming more aware of their food\u2019s origin, new research at the University of Pittsburgh suggests it might be just as important to pay attention to the origin of your food\u2019s food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":57343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1031],"tags":[3,8],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fishy Chemicals in Farmed Salmon - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/fishy-chemicals-farmed-salmon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fishy Chemicals in Farmed Salmon - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Persistent organic pollutants\u2014or POPs\u2014skulk around the environment threatening human health through direct contact, inhalation, and most commonly, eating contaminated food. 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