Plastic fish

A recent study associates small amounts of fish consumption with increased risk of malignant melanoma, citing ocean pollutants like mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) from plastic. No causality since it’s a prospective cohort study, but the N was just short of half a million people. The carcinogenicity of PBC’s is not new and elevated serum levels have been associated with prostate and breast cancer. Oh, and 46% of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch derives from fishing industry waste. 

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https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-06-09/fish-melanoma

https://academic.oup.com/carcin/article/37/12/1144/2333837?login=false

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w