Contaminated salmon should be destroyed
BC environmental and consumer groups are calling on the Canadian government to prevent hundreds of thousands more BC farmed salmon contaminated with malachite green from reaching unsuspecting consumers. Malachite green is a highly toxic banned chemical formerly used to control fungus and is listed as a carcinogen by Health Canada.
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 36,287 kilograms of tainted BC farmed salmon (some 310,000 chinook) has already reached markets in the US, Canada, China, Japan and other countries since a food safety recall was issued. Stolt Sea Farms is now actively seeking a market for a further 310,000 contaminated farmed salmon. The fish were raised in sea cages at their suspect farm at Brougham Point on East Thurlow Island in Georgia Strait.

Canola a weed now
The wide scale use of herbicides in agriculture has led to the inadvertent, but natural, development of weed species with herbicide tolerance. Herbicide-tolerant weed species appeared before the adoption of agricultural biotechnology, mainly due to poor agronomic practices.
Now, herbicide-tolerant canola varieties are interbreeding. The result is triple tolerant canola that can withstand the application of three different herbicides.