EPA has announced plans to place additional limitations on the use of three organophosphate pesticides — chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion — to protect endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Anticipated changes to product labels include the addition of pesticide buffer zones; application limitations based on wind speed, soil moisture [...]

Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, adding to growing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids are of benefit to cardiac health.
Represent one of the largest studies to investigate the association, the study, led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is reported [...]

Researcher Nat Scholz, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), examined how widely used pesticides that run off the land and mix in rivers and streams combine to have a greater than expected toxic effect on the salmon nervous system. The occurrence of these pesticides as mixtures in the human food supply may also [...]