Baltic fish may be too toxic to be sold in the EU Options

[gabriellemy]

http://www.greengate.ee/index.php?page=1&id1=8027

Läänemere kalad on mürkainete sisalduse tõttu müügikõlbmatud

Mõnest Läänemere piirkonnast püütud kalad võivad sisaldada liiga palju mürgiseid ühendeid, et neid müüa Euroopa Liidu turul, teatas WWF (Maailma Looduse Fond).

Coalition Clean Balticu poolt koostatud aruande kohaselt on alates 1980-ndatest kuni 90-ndate alguseni Läänemere kalades igal aastal akumuleerunud 31 kg polüklorobifenüüle (PCB) ja kindlasti on osa saastunud kaladest sattunud ka inimese söögilauale.

Läänemerest leitud kalade dioksiinide sisaldus ületab mitmeid kordi EL-i norme ja 1995. aastal keelasid Rootsi võimud lapseootel naistel süüa Läänemerest püütud heeringat ja lõhet, sest need olid saastunud toksiliste ainetega.

Aruanne näitab ka, et mitmetel kalaliikidel nagu lõhel, meriforellil, tursal ja kammeljal on viimastel aastakümnetel probleeme sigimisega. Polübromobifenüüleetri tase on Läänemere heeringal 50 korda kõrgem kui Atlandi ookeani isenditel. Kuid saastunud ei ole mitte ainult kalad, vaid ka toitumisahela tipus olevad kiskjad - hülged, tirgud ja merikotkad, kelle polübromobifenüülide tase on kaks kuni kolm korda kõrgem kui Põhjamere või Põhja-Jäämeres elavatel liigikaaslastel.

«Läänemere liigid on põhjalikult kemikaalidega saastunud,» ütleb dr. Ninja Reineke, WWF-i DetoX kampaania vanemametnik, «See ei ole lihtsalt mineviku koorem, vaid suurem kestev probleem.»

Läänemeri on väga tundlik igasuguse saastuse suhtes, kuna kogu mere veevahetus võtab aega 25-30 aastat. Olukorra teeb veel hullemaks vee madal temperatuur ja jäätumine, mis muudab kemikaalide biolagunemise eriti aeglaseks. WWF on väga mures, kuna praegune EL-i kemikaalide alane seadusandlus ei ole just kõige õnnestunum, eriti puudutab Läänemere ökosüsteemide ja biodiverstieedi kaitse osas kahjulike kemikaalide eest.

Roheline Värav 25/01/2005
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http://panda.org/campaign/detox/news_publi...m?uNewsID=18011

Baltic fish may be too toxic to be sold in the EU
25, Jan 2005

Brussels, Belgium / Gland, Switzerland – Fish from some areas of the Baltic Sea are so contaminated that they may be too toxic for EU markets, warns WWF.

According to a new report, Clean Baltic within REACH?, every year from the late 1980s to early 1990s, 31kg of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) accumulated in the fish caught from the Baltic Sea, and almost certainly ended up on people's plates.

Some of the fatty fish found in the Baltic do not comply with EU requirements for dioxins, and in 1995 the Swedish authorities recommended that women of childbearing age limit their consumption of Baltic herring and salmon because of the contamination with toxic substances such as furans, dioxins, and PCBs.

The report also reveals that several fish species, such as Atlantic salmon, sea trout, cod and turbot, have shown signs of reproductive problems in recent decades.

The level of brominated flame retardants (PBDEs) found in herring is 50 times higher in the Baltic Sea than in the Atlantic.

But it is not only the fish that is contaminated. The levels of polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs, banned since 2000) and PBDEs in top predators such as seals, guillemots, and white-tailed sea eagles are two to five times higher in the Baltic Sea than in the North Sea and Arctic Ocean.

Other harmful chemicals, such as perfluorinated compounds, have been found lately in harbour porpoises, as well as in various fish and bird species.

"Baltic species are thoroughly contaminated with chemicals," said Dr Ninja Reineke, Senior Policy Officer with the WWF DetoX Campaign. "This is not just a burden of the past but a major ongoing problem."

The Baltic Sea is an ecosystem highly sensitive to pollution, as there is little exchange of water with the neighbouring Atlantic Ocean.

As a result, the sea's contaminated water can remain in place for 25 to 30 years. And, to make the situation even worse, low water temperatures and ice cover mean that the chemicals biodegrade extremely slowly.

WWF stresses that the current EU chemical legislation has failed to protect the Baltic ecosystem and its biodiversity from the toxic threat of hazardous chemicals, but REACH, the new EU legislation on chemicals, could contribute to the protection of a vulnerable area such as the Baltic Sea.

The need to identify and replace the worst chemicals that damage the reproduction and development of marine species is long overdue, the global conservation organization says.

Once implemented, the REACH system will prevent persistent and bioaccumulative substances from further contaminating the Baltic Sea environment.

"The existing EU chemicals regulation is obviously not able to provide sufficient protection, but the debate about a new EU chemicals policy gives hope for a clean Baltic," said Lasse Gustavsson, Director of WWF's Baltic Ecoregion Programme.

"REACH is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to have safer chemicals and a healthier future for wildlife and people. New markets for safer products and increased trust should make it good news for the chemical industry too."

NOTES:

1. Perfluorinated compounds are used in the production of textiles, food packaging, and non-stick coatings such as Teflon. Brominated flame retardants are used in fabrics and TVs.

2. The Baltic Sea is the youngest sea on the planet. It has a unique marine ecosystem that plays an important role for the 85 million people who live in the area. The Baltic Sea is also the only sea almost entirely within the European Union. Therefore, the EU has a special responsibility for its health.

3. The EU has developed a strategy to reduce human consumption of furans, dioxins and PCBs lower than 14 pg WHO-TEQ per kg bodyweight per week. For a transitional period ending on 31 December 2006, Sweden and Finland have been authorized to place on the domestic market fish from the Baltic region with higher dioxin levels.

This allowance has been granted provided that a system is put in place to ensure that consumers are fully informed about the situation, and particularly about the risks associated with dioxin for identified vulnerable groups of the population (HELCOM 2004).

4. REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) is the draft EU law that should lead to the identification and phasing out of the most harmful chemicals. If it becomes law it will be enforced in all European Union countries.

Under the law, chemical producers would be obliged to send a registration dossier containing safety data to a central chemicals agency for all chemicals produced in quantities above one tonne a year. Less information is required the lower the tonnage of chemicals produced. Experts would then evaluate the safety data for higher-volume chemicals and other chemicals of concern. Chemicals of very high concern would be phased out, and replaced by safer alternatives, unless industry can show ‘adequate control’ of the risk from their use or that their ‘socio-economic’ value outweighed the risks. WWF does not think that the draft law is tough enough.

[gabriellemy]

http://www.postimees.ee/020205/online_uudised/156644.php

Lätis keelati Läänemere lõhe müük
01.02.2005 16:34
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Läti toiduainete- ja veterinaarkontrolli peainspektor keelas kauplemise Läänemerest ja Liivi lahest püütud lõhega selle liigse dioksiinisisalduse tõttu, vahendab ETV.

Keeld põhineb Suurbritannia toidulaboris tehtud analüüsidel, mis näitavad dioksiini normiületavat sisaldumist viies selle kalaliigi laborisse saadetud üheksast proovist.

Kontrollimisele saadeti ka räime, kilu ja turmamaksa proovid. Räimes ja kilus on dioksiini normi piires, tursamaksa kohta aga pole norme ei Lätil ega ka Euroopa Liidul.

Inspektor soovitab siiski riskigruppidel ehk kaluritel ja teistel, kes kala sagedamini söövad, tursamaksa söömist piirata.

Kuigi Läti püüab Läänemerest igal aastal vaid 40-50 tonni lõhet, otsustas inspektor tarbijate tervise huvides lõhemüügi keelata.

Inspektor soovitas kala otsmisel jälgida liha värvust: Läänemere lõhe on hallikas-kollane, väikese dioksiinisisaldusega ja kahjutu Norra lõhe aga oranžikas-punane.

(Latvia bars salmon from Baltic Sea due to tests showing more than allowed amounts of dioxi in 5 samples out of 9 )

This post has been edited by gabriellemy: Feb 1 2005, 05:13 PM

[mistral]

-on the top of it, the Tchernobyl explosion, in 1986, had already polluted a good part of Europe, especially the Northern part, with his radioactic cloud....for years to come! just nobody speaks anymore about it.. ou si peu!

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The assessment of the catastrophe of Tchernobyl oscillates between 40 000 and 560 000 died, to see more, according to estimates'.

The president ukrainien Leonid Koutchma asked for Wednesday Europe to free more money to help his country

KIEV, May 21, 2003 - the president ukrainien Leonid Koutchma asked for Wednesday Europe to free more money to help his country to manage the problems born of the nuclear catastrophe of Tchernobyl.

"We would like to hear a signal come from your conference. The Ukraine cannot only deal with Tchernobyl, not only as regards reacting to the warning launched by the world (as for ric current), but also for the repair of the consequences of the catastrophe ", it declared during the fifth conference on the environment in Europe.

The nuclear thermal power station of Tchernobyl was closed in 2000 pennies the pressure of Europe, which promised to contribute with the startup of two new nuclear engines and to the construction of a new "concrete sarcophagus" to prevent radiations from escaping from the engine which had exploded in 1986. Europe was to also contribute to the cleaning of the contaminated zone.

But the negotiations on these projects were delayed because of dissensions on the question of the financing. Koutchma had declared that the conditions fixed by the Occident amounted subjecting the Ukraine to an eternal constraint.

Persons in charge for the UE declared with the press that they also hoped for the fast construction of a new sarcophagus, but added that the Ukraine was initially to finish the construction of two engines answering the Western safety requirements.

The Ukraine and the European Bank for the rebuilding and the development took again this year the negotiations concerning a loan of 21,5 million dollars to contribute to the construction of the engines.


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Western responsibilities in the medical consequences for the catastrophe for Tchernobyl (November 1997)
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Swallows of Tchernobyl (December 1997)


A lawsuit counters official Soviet responsible for the post-accidental management of Tchernobyl (June 1991)


Tchernobyl: effects on health in France (January 1998)


The Tchernobyl-on-Seine (1998)
A major accident in France would not inevitably have the width of that of Tchernobyl...


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Tchernobyl: chicaneries and traffics in any kind

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Tchernobyl: closing with great suspense

"amazed and frightened" by the reactions of the elected officials and the leaders of the power station of Tchernobyl

Victims of the catastrophe of Tchernobyl

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Liquidators of Tchernobyl left for account (Release, November 1999)

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"the alarm bell of Tchernobyl"
1987, 85mn, documentary very Soviet in RealVideo 21Kb of Rollan Serguienko.
This film with the glory of the heroes of Tchernobyl , consists of testimonys of people consernées by the catastrophe: members of the personnel of the power station, firemen, liquidators, doctors... (Unfortunately the film is very weighed down by the will to make a contribution to atomic disarmament and thanks to this subterfuge, to pass on a Soviet chain of television.)




"Tchernobyl Autopsy of a cloud" ,
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Cent-vingt five people suffering from cancers or affections from thyroid deposited felt sorry for in Paris, within the framework of an investigation open on the possible medical consequences in France of the nuclear catastrophe of Tchernobyl.






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"Tchernobyl, an alibi out of concrete" ,
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"Tchernobyl:
Questions with a future "
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