Ocean Sentry
(From reuters.com) Oslo – People who eat whale meat in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic have high levels of an industrial toxin in their blood in a worrying sign that the pollutant has spread worldwide, scientists said on Thursday. A study with scientists in the Faroe Islands, Denmark and the United States showed higher traces of PFCs in the blood of people who ate whales in the Faroes — between Norway and Iceland — comparable to those in people in industrial nations closer to the sources of the chemicals.
For one of the nine types of PFCs known as PFOS, “a single dinner with whale meat every two weeks is associated with an increase of 25 percent in the blood concentration,” he said.
