Sweden wants another exception

ven though no improvement has been seen, Sweden will ask the Commission to prolong the dispensation from EU limits on the dioxin content in herring and salmon, the minister says.

The present EU dispensation that allows Sweden and Finland to utilize fish with higher concentration of dioxin and PCB than the Union limit expires after 2011. No decrease has been observed in herring from the Bothnian Sea since the 1990s, partly due to the low exploitation: the portion of old herring in the stock increases, and old herring has accumulated more dioxin.