Ethoxyquin: Added to Keep Fish Meal from Bursting into Flames, May Be a Carcinogen

 I read an article about the curious history of a potential carcinogen that caught on in the 1970s as an additive to prevent fish meal from breaking out in spontaneous combustion in ships holds. Several dozen ships fires began with fish meal so ethoxyquin was readily applied. It is used to feed farmed fish these days and except for a few countries that have banned it the chemical continues to be ingested by the farmed fish you may eat. About half of the fish consumed by human sin the world are farmed fish.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/

At least Peruvian fish have stopped consuming fish meal treated with ethoxyquin so Americans eating fish from Peru have only enough tartar sauce to worry about. Wild caught Alaska salmon may lack ethoxyquin and instead have only microplastics and the usual suspects shared with all open sea fish swimming through a chemical soup including radiation.