Pesticides in Cultivated Fish

Scientists are doing research to test if fish grown on farms are accumulating pesticides in their bodies due to the food pellets they are given. Up until now the means to do this research has been impossible. Students in Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Schmallenberg have created a method for testing it by using radioactive materials to trace the pesticides which will show if they are making their way into the fishes fat cells. The test results will be published in late fall of 2011.