The Ferret: “Salmon farm rapped for toxic pesticide breaches”

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (13 August 2020):

 

 

Read the Ferret article in full online here – including access to the FOI disclosure:

 

 

 

This is not the first time The Scottish Salmon Company has been caught out overdosing on Emamectin benzoate in Loch Roag.  The Daily Mail reported in March 2017:

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2017. 

 

 

Documents obtained from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) via Freedom of Information (FOI) reveal that the Scottish Salmon Company breached safety levels for Emamectin in the flesh of Scottish salmon three times in 2016 at two salmon farms  in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis (Vacasay and Taranaish).  "Cause of residue was overdose" reads one of the documents.

 

 

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Daily Mail: "The toxic chemicals in farmed salmon straight from the loch: Substance used to control sea lice can harm human health"

"Scottish Salmon Overdoses on Toxic Chemical – Emamectin contamination at the Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Roag"