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Asda, Gateshead (29.10.01): Salmon steaks (Unknown) - DDT (0.012), HCB
(0.002)
Asda, Aintree in Liverpool (29.10.01): Skinless and boned salmon fillet
portions (Unknown) - DDT (0.01), HCB (0.003), Chlordane (0.002)
Asda, Aintree in Liverpool (30.10.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.01),
HCB (0.002)
Asda, Canterbury in Kent (30.10.01): Salmon steaks (Unknown) - DDT
(0.009), HCB (0.002)
Asda, Canterbury in Kent (30.10.01): Skinless and boned salmon fillet
portions (Unknown) - DDT (0.007)
Asda, Canterbury in Kent (27.11.01): Salmon steaks (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Marks & Spencer, Shoreham in Sussex (21.08.01): Fresh Scottish salmon
fillet (UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB (0.002)
Marks & Spencer, Eltham in London (26.06.01): Skinless and boneless
salmon fillet (UK) - DDT (0.009)
Safeway, Dundee (22.05.01): Scottish salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.003)
Safeway, Malvern (25.09.01): Scottish salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Safeway, Plymouth (21.08.01): Scottish salmon tail fillets (UK) - DDT
(0.007)
Safeway, Sheffield (25.06.01): Scottish salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Safeway, Sheffiled (23.07.01): Scottish salmon steaks (UK) - DDT (0.01),
HCB (0.002)
Safeway, Malvern (30.10.01): Fresh salmon (UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB (0.002)
Safeway, Malvern (27.11.01): Scottish salmon (UK) - DDT (0.009)
Sainsbury's, Bamber Bridge near Preston (22.05.01): Salmon side fillet
(UK) - DDT (0.008)
Sainsbury's, Eltham in London (24.07.01): Salmon side fillet (Unknown) -
DDT (0.008), HCB (0.002)
Sainsbury's, Leeds (25.09.01): Salmon steak (UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB
(0.003), Chlordane (0.002)
Sainsbury's, Bamber Bridge near Preston (21.08.01): Salmon side fillet
(UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB (0.003), Chlordane (0.002)
Sainsbury's, Bamber Bridge near Preston (21.08.01): Wild Alaskan salmon
fillet (USA) - None were detected above the set RL
Sainsbury's, Sheffield (21.08.01): Salmon side fillet (UK) - DDT (0.01),
HCB (0.003)
Sainsbury's, Hove near Brighton (25.06.01): Boneless salmon fillets (UK)
- DDT (0.01)
Sainsbury's, Oxford (24.07.01): Salmon side fillet (UK) - DDT (0.01),
HCB (0.002)
Sainsbury's, Walton in Liverpool (02.10.01): Salmon side fillet (UK) -
DDT (0.01), HCB (0.003), Chlordane (0.002)
Sainsbury's, Norwich (13.11.01): Salmon tail fillets (Unknown) - DDT
(0.008)
Somerfield, Sheffield (21.05.01): Salmon steaks (UK) - DDT (0.009)
Somerfield, Sheffield (21.05.01): Salmon fillets (Unknown) - DDT
(0.009), HCB (0.002)
Tesco, Shoreham in Sussex (23.07.01): Salmon steaks (UK) - DDT (0.02),
HCB (0.002)
Tesco, Dundee (21.08.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB (0.002)
Tesco, Llandudno (25.09.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.02), HCB
(0.002), Chlordane (0.003)
Tesco, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (25.09.01): Salmon fillets (Unknown) - DDT
(0.02), HCB (0.002), Chlordane (0.002)
Tesco, Chorley (24.07.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.02), HCB (0.003)
Tesco, Plymouth (21.08.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Tesco, Rotherhithe in London (22.05.01): Skinless/boneless salmon fillet
(UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB (0.002), Chlordane (0.002)
Tesco, Rotherhithe in London (22.05.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT
(0.009)
Tesco, Dundee (26.06.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Tesco, Llandudno (25.09.01): Two salmon steaks (UK) - DDT (0.04), HCB
(0.003), Chlordane (0.006)
Tesco, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (30.10.01): Two organic salmon fillets (UK) -
DDT (0.006)
Tesco, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (30.10.01): Six salmon fillets (UK) - DDT
(0.01), HCB (0.002), Chlordane (0.002)
Tesco, Worcester (30.10.01): Salmon fillets (Unknown) - DDT (0.01), HCB
(0.002)
Tesco, Plymouth (11.12.01): Salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.009)
Waitrose, Thame in Oxon (22.05.01): Salmon steak (UK) - DDT (0.01), HCB
(0.002)
Waitrose, Thame in Oxon (26.06.01): Salmon (UK) - DDT (0.01), Chlordane
(0.002)
Waitrose, Finchley Rd in London (12.06.01): Organic salmon steaks (UK) -
DDT (0.01), HCB (0.003)
Waitrose, Finchley Rd in London (12.06.01): Skinless salmon fillets
(Unknown) - DDT (0.007)
Waitrose, Malvern (30.10.01): Scots salmon fillets (UK) - DDT (0.008)
Wm Morrisons, Pontefract (29.10.01): Scottish salmon (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Wm Morrisons, Pontefract (26.11.01): Scottish salmon (UK) - DDT (0.01)
Wm Morrisons, Small Heath in Birmingham (11.12.01): Scottish salmon
steaks (UK) - DDT (0.01)
From: Table 17 - Residues found in retail samples of fresh salmon in 2001, p370-379:
http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/committees/PRC/fourthq2001rev1/q4annexrev1.pdf
The new analysis of pesticide contamination was carried out by the government's Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment. The committee's 18 experts were asked to investigate the health implications of mixtures of different chemicals in food because of growing concern over possible 'cocktail effects'. Their report, published last week, listed all the 'worst-case occurrences of pesticide residues' in all the food sampled by scientists between 1997 and 2001. Salmon was the only food in which every sample, from a batch tested in 1997, contained three pesticides: DDT, dieldrin and hexachlorobenzene. The committee accepted that evidence was limited and that some chemical interactions may be unpredictable, but concluded that there was 'only a very small risk to human health of the 'cocktail effect' of pesticides'. But this has been attacked as complacent by environmentalists. 'Farmed salmon is the
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