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Coming to Your Table: Healthier Farmed Seafood

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http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=8942

Posted: 10-Dec-2008; Updated: 20-Jul-2009

Responding to a wave of consumer demand for healthy and sustainable seafood, leading natural foods retailer Whole Foods this year instituted strict new standards for farmed fish. Since roughly half the seafood consumed in the U.S. comes from fish farms, the standards could have a huge impact.

The new guidelines, developed with help from Environmental Defense Fund experts, ban the use of preservatives, antibiotics, hormones and other chemicals that can be harmful to humans yet are typically used to promote growth in fish. The policy also avoids fish farmed in wetlands and limits the use of wild fish as feed.

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