Fish and Shellfish Products and Dioxin/PCB

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Hart, Andy, et al.	Accounting for Uncertainty in Risk Analysis of Dioxins in Seafood This presentation addresses uncertainty analysis in risk analysis and provides a case study of the uncertainty associated with a risk assessment of dioxins in salmon. It was presented at the 2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003	Jun 18, 2003
	Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition/Committee on Toxicity	Advice on Fish Consumption: Benefits & Risks Report that weighs nutritional benefits against toxicological risks of fish, especially oily fish, consumption and develops dietary advice regarding fish consumption. Includes discussion of fish consumption in the UK, LC PUFA, fish consumption and cardiovascular disease, dioxins and PCBs, mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and more. Annexes include "Fish consumption in the UK," "DHA requirements in pregnancy and lactation," "Updated COT statement on a survey of mercury in fish and shellfish," "COT statement on brominated flame retardants in fish from the Skerne Tees rivers system," and "COT statement on the tolerable daily intake for dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Sep 3, 2004
	Byrne, David	David BYRNE European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Declaration on Salmon - Reaction on study in "Science" Speech given at the European Parliament Plenary Session in Strasbourg on February 10, 2004. The speech addresses the current situation and actions taken in the EU with respect to dioxins, PCBs, and residues of organochlorine pesticides in foods in response to the study published in Science on January 9, 2004 entitled "Global assessment of organic contaminants in farmed salmon". (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004	Feb 13, 2004
	United Kingdom Food Standards Agency	Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Farmed and Wild Fish and Shellfish Report of analysis levels of dioxins and PCBs present in 47 species of wild fish and shellfish in the UK. Deadline: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Publication Date: Friday, February 17, 2006	Feb 22, 2006
	United Kingdom Food Standards Agency	Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Foods - EU Monitoring 2005 Survey assessing levels of dioxins and PCBs in 142 retail samples of meat, eggs, dairy, fats and oils, seafood, fruit, vegetables, and bread/cereal products in the UK. (more) Deadline: Friday, June 23, 2006 Publication Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2006	Jul 27, 2006
	United Kingdom Food Standards Agency	Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Processed Fish and Fish Products Survey assessing 165 samples of processed fish and fish products in the United Kingdom for dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs. Analyzes canned fish and shellfish, processed fish (smoked and dried), fish fingers, prepared fish meals, fish roe, calamari and fish balls, pastes and pates, and seafood sticks. (more) Deadline: Thursday, May 4, 2006 Publication Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006	May 4, 2006
	Institute of Food Science and Technology	Dioxins and PCBs in Food This document provides an overview of dioxins and PCBs, including sources, dioxins and PCBs in the food chain, and dioxins and PCBs in human milk. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998	Aug 9, 2002
	Advisory Forum, European Food Safety Authority	EFSA Advisory Forum Event Berlin: Abstracts and presentations from this public event on topics related to the risk assessment process. Presentations include "Future perspectives in risk assessment: Key challenges and opportunities"/Jouve, Jean-Louis; "Future perspectives on risk assessment: key challenges and opportunities"/Feron, Victor J.; "Future perspectives on risk assessment: key challenges and opportunities"/Silano, Vittorio; "UK review of risks and benefits of fish consumption"/Benford, Diane; "Position of the French Committee of AFSSA on a risk/benefit analysis of GMOs"/Schwartz, Maxime; "Risk-benefit assessment of micronutrients - folic acid"/Flynn, Albert; and "Risk-benefit evaluation lessons for risk management and communication"/Renn, Ortwin. (more) Event Dates: Monday, November 8, 2004 - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Publication Date: Friday, November 12, 2004	Aug 6, 2004
	Fish Monitoring Program, State Veterinarian, Division of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Conservation, State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation	Fish Monitoring Program Program that monitors Alaskan fish (salmon, halibut, pacific cod, sablefish, black rockfish, sheefish, lingcod, and pollock) for heavy metals, dioxins, furans, pesticides, PCBs, inorganic arsenic, and chromium VI. The website includes access to their data on contaminant levels in fish. (more)	Nov 1, 2004
	Hites, Ronald A., et al.	Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon Report of a study on the concentrations of organochlorine contaminants in farmed and wild salmon. The cumulative risks of consuming farmed and wild salmon and the resulting consumption advice based on EPA methodology are also discussed. Subscription or purchase are required to access the full text. (more) Publication Date: Friday, January 9, 2004	Jan 13, 2004
	Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General, European Commission	Guidelines for the Enforcement of Provisions on Dioxins in the Event Non-compliance with the Maximum Levels for Dioxins in Food Guidance on measures to be taken in the case of non-compliance with maximum dioxin levels in foods. The cases in which the non-compliance can be traced to a specific production site and in which fish are caught at sea or in fresh water are addressed. (more) Publication Month: July 2004	Jul 26, 2004
	Buzby, Jean C. (Ed.)	International Trade and Food Safety: Economic Theory and Case Studies Report on the relationships between food safety regulation and international trade. Food safety and trade issues for meat and poultry products, produce, and seafood are discussed, as are these issues as related to hazards such as mycotoxins and dioxins. Attachments include "Belgian-Luxembourg exports, 1989-1999" and "Belgium-Luxembourg monthly production indices of key agricultrual products, 1998-99". Highlights of this report are provided in Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AIB789), Food Safety and International Trade - Research Briefs, available from ERS. (more) Publication Month: November 2003	Nov 12, 2003
	Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research	Norwegian Seafood Data Searchable database of the levels of several contaminants among a variety of marine species in Norwegian waters. Also available in Norwegian. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, February 22, 2006	Feb 22, 2006
	Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain, European Food Safety Authority	Opinion of the CONTAM Panel Related to the Safety Assessment of Wild and Farmed Fish Opinion adopted on June 22, 2005 regarding wild and farmed fish, including discussion of nutrient and contaminant levels, beneficial effects of fish consumption, impact and risk assessment of the consumption of Baltic herring, and more. (more) Publication Date: Friday, July 1, 2005	Jul 8, 2005
	Food Safety Department, World Health Organization	PCBs and Dioxins in Salmon: Organochlorine Contamination of Salmon Release regarding the recent study on the levels of organochlorine contaminants in farmed and wild salmon and regarding WHO's activities regarding dioxins and PCBs in foods. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004	Jan 27, 2004
	Abdel-Rahman, Mohamed S., et al.	Peer Review Panel Report for the Fox River Human and Ecological Risk Assessments This report critiques two human health and ecological assessments of risk from chemical contaminants in the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin. The human health risk assessments focus on the risks from intake of PCBs through fish consumption. Each risk assessment was performed using different methodology - one using Monte Carlo analysis and one being a point estimate risk assessment. Differences among the two risk assessments and positive and negative aspects of each approach are discussed. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000	Aug 25, 2003
	Johnson, Barry L., et al.	Public Health Implications of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Discussion of the health effects of exposure to PCBs, mainly through fish consumption.	May 29, 2002
	Food Standards Australia New Zealand	Report on a Survey of Chemical Residues in Domestic and Imported Aquacultured Fish Report of a survey of domestic and imported finfish in Australia for levels of nitrofurans, chloramphenicol, sulphonamides, tetracyclines, malachite green, penicillins, macrolides, trimethoprim, quinolones, and PCBs. Includes as attachments "National Residue Survey Report on Wildcaught fish and Aquaculture," "An Assessment of the Public Health Risk Associated with Low Residues of Malachite Green chloride and Leucomalachite green in Aquacultured Fish," and others. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 Publication Month: November 2005	Jan 10, 2006
	Stokstad, Erik	Salmon Survey Stokes Debate About Farmed Fish This article presents the differing opinions regarding the benefits and risks of consuming farmed salmon in light of Hites, et al.'s publication entitled "Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon" (available at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/5655/226). Registration or subscription is required to access the article. (more) Publication Date: Friday, January 9, 2004	Jan 13, 2004
	Binational.net	State of the Great Lakes 2003: Can We Eat the Fish? Fish Tissue Fact sheet regarding contaminants in fish from the Great Lakes, a publication of the State Of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference. (more) Publication Month: December 2003	Jul 28, 2004

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