According to an article entitled 'Risk Based Consumption Advice for Farmed Atlantic and Wild Pacific Salmon Contaminated with Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds' published in May 2005, (Foran et al., 2005, Environmental Health Perspectives, 113:552-556), substances such as PCBs, toxaphene, dieldrin, dioxins and polybrominated diphenyl ethers were found in much higher concentrations in salmon from European fish farms than in salmon from fish farms in North and South America.

Can the Commission say whether there is actually a higher concentration of chemical substances in salmon from European fish farms, and whether consumption of such salmon is harmless and in what quantities?

The Scientific Panel on Additives and Products or Substances Used in Animal Feed of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) delivered a favourable opinion on 22 January 2003 on the efficacy of that additive when used in the animal category salmon and trout.

Q-54 — Mr. Robinson (Burnaby—Douglas) — With regard to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) survey tests of domestic and imported aquaculture fish: (a) what drugs, chemicals, contaminants and pesticides were included in these tests; (b) what are the tolerance levels for these compounds under current Canadian regulations; (c) when were these tolerance levels last updated; (d) what scientific research has been conducted on potential impacts from PCBs since these tolerance levels were first established; (e) what is the number of fish tested annually in CFIA surveys; (f) what is the percentage of imported fish tested in these surveys; (g) what percentage of Chilean farmed salmon ...[+++] imports is tested for malachite green; (h) what percentage of Chilean farmed salmon has tested positive for malachite green; (i) what is the percentage of fish tested in relation to the amount imported/exported; (j) what are the Canadian standards for allowable residues of malachite green; (k) what percentage of Canadian farmed salmon and trout is tested for malachite green; (l) what are the Canadian standards for antibiotic residues in farmed fish; (m) what percentage of Canadian farmed salmon is tested for antibiotic residues; (n) how many times has the CFIA recalled farmed fish because of elevated levels of antibiotic residues; (o) what are the Canadian standards for levels of the therapeutant emamectin benzoate in farmed fish; and (p) what percentage of Canadian farmed fish is tested for emamectin benzoate?

In 2013, Canada's largest Atlantic salmon open net pen company was found by Environment Canada to have purchased 79 gallons of a cypermethrin-based product, illegal in Canada, and to have used it to combat sea lice in their New Brunswick operations in 2009 and 2010.

‘‘pest control product’’ means (a) a product, an organism or a substance, including a product, an organism or a substance derived through biotechnology, that consists of its active ingredient, formulants and contaminants, and that is manufactured, represented, distributed or used as a means for directly or indirectly controlling, destroying, attracting or repelling a pest or for mitigating or preventing its injurious, noxious or troublesome effects; (b) an active ingredient that is used to manufacture anything described in paragraph (a); or (c) any other thing that is prescribed to be a pest control product.