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Article: MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH RELEASES HEALTH CONSULTATION ON SAGINAW RIVER DIOXIN EXPOSURES, HEALTH RISKS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 13, 2008
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The Michigan Department of Community Health issued the following news release:
The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) has released a final public health consultation that confirms that eating some dioxin contaminated Saginaw River fish represents a public health hazard. These findings emphasize that people should closely follow the Michigan interim fish consumption advisory for the Saginaw River, which states:
- No one should eat carp, catfish, or white bass;
- Women of childbearing age and children under the age of 15 should not eat smallmouth bass;
- All other people are advised to eat no more than one meal of smallmouth bass per week;
- Women of childbearing age and children ...