BLENHEIM, Ontario, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The Canadian fishing industry announced it will test for mercury, PCBs and other pollutants of Great Lakes fish sold in U.S. supermarkets.
The fish imported from Canada include: whitefish, lake trout, yellow perch and walleye, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Peter Meisenheimer, executive director of the Ontario Commercial Fisheries Association, said the organization will oversee the testing and laboratories will do the analysis.
The OCFA has not decided whether to make the results public. but Meisenheimer said the industry knows if it found high mercury levels in fish and withheld the information "we would be in trouble."
Consumer advocates in Washington called on the Canadian fishing industry to disclose its findings.
"You can't have a testing program of this nature where it addresses a public health need and keep the information secret," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
