How do FDA standards figure into this? Doesn Pennsylvania use Great Lakes protocols for determining consumption advisories?
A principal focus of the study was to show what levels of PCBs would show up in fillets of trout fed fish food, which complied with regulatory PCB limits for fish food (0.2 ppm of PCBs), over a period of months. The study also examined the levels of PCBs that would be shown with different diets. The federal Food and Drug Administration establishes tolerance levels (safety action levels) for PCBs in fish food. Pennsylvania follows the FDA levels for PCBs in fish food. This is a regulatory standard. Under FDA standards, finished feed may not have more than 0.2 ppm of PCBs. The FDA also sets regulatory standards for acceptable levels of PCBs in fish sold as foodstuffs in interstate commerce. The FDA tolerance level for fish sold as food is 2 ppm of PCBs. Pennsylvania uses the FDA levels for fish sold in stores and those raised by commercial hatcheries. For recreationally-caught sportfish, including state hatchery fish when stocked, Pennsylvania uses the Great Lakes Consumption Advisory Pr
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