Monday, May 21, 2007
Now Shrimp Might Be A Problem
According to researchers at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, the seafood in 11 coastal Chinese cities is heavily contaminated with organochlorine pesticides (DDT and similar products) as well as hexachlorocyclohexanes. Some of these :
are ubiquitous in the environment and may continue to pose health threat to both wildlife and human beings, due to their persistency, bioaccumulativeGiven that China has become a major seafood exporter and that the US is one of its big collective customers, you might want to put that shrimp in a decontamination chamber before putting them on the barbie.
ability, and potential toxicity.
Labels: China, health, pesticides, shrimp
