EFSA INSECTICIDE PROBE
March 1st, 2005
KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for additional research into the presence of a potentially toxic insecticide in farmed fish. EFSA has concluded that while there is wide knowledge possibly harmful levels of camphechlor are present in fish and fish oil (for human and livestock consumption), it fears "substantial data gaps...on oral toxicity for farmed fish. Camphechlor was heavily used in the 1970s, but has now been phased out in most countries on environmental grounds. "Environmental biotransformation and accumulation in the ...
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