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Article: Local Fish Still Pose Health Risk; Pollution Affects Carp, Catfish, Eel
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- The Washington Post
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- October 25, 1994
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District officials say they may strengthen their warning to
limit consumption of catfish, carp and eel from the Anacostia and
Potomac rivers because of research showing persistent contamination
by cancer-causing chemicals.
City health officials have been warning people since 1987 to
eat no more than one meal a week of local channel catfish, carp and
eel because of contamination by chlordane and PCBs. Preschool
children, nursing mothers and other women of child-bearing age were
urged not to eat any.
Catfish, carp and eel are susceptible to the contaminants
because they live on the river bottom and soak up pollution,
especially in the Anacostia River, which flows into the Potomac.
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