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[[Category:Fish]]
[[Category:Health effects]]
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==Scope==

'''Pollutant health risk due to the consumption of salmon''' describes the health risks of persistent pollutants found in the farmed salmon consumed in the Western Europe (EU-15, Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland). The risk is measured as avoided premature deaths per year (this leads to negative numbers for increased risks).

==Definition==

===Data===

* The plausible range is -10000 - 0 avoided cases per year (author judgement).
* Pollutant health risk is calculated assuming additivity between the pollutants. 
* Dioxin risks are not considered because they were not considered in Hites' paper<ref>R. A. Hites et al. Global assessment of organic contaminants in farmed salmon. Science, 9 Jan. 2004, p. 226</ref>. 

===Causality===

Upstream variables
* [[Variable:Exposure to persistent pollutants due to salmon in the population of the Western Europe]]
* [[Variable:Dose-response function of persistent pollutants]]
* [[Variable:Total mortality in the Western Europe]]

===Unit===

avoided cases/a

===Formula===

<anacode>
 var a:= -Risk_slope*pollutant_exposure/1000*western_europe;
 a:= (if pollutant1='Dioxin' then 0 else a);
 sum(a,pollutant1)
</anacode>

==Result==

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{| {{prettytable}}
|Statistics or fractile 
|Business as usual
|Recommend restrictions
|Stricter rules for feed
|Both
|----
|Mean
| -206
| -151
| -139
| -102
|----
|SD
|71
|55
|70
|53
|----
|0.01
| -408
| -326
| -340
| -268
|----
|0.025
| -371
| -292
| -302
| -233
|----
|0.05
| -339
| -259
| -270
| -202
|----
|0.25
| -249
| -179
| -180
| -129
|----
|0.5 (Median)
| -196
| -138
| -130
| -94
|----
|0.75
| -153
| -111
| -87
| -65
|----
|0.95
| -107
| -83
| -40
| -29
|----
|0.975
| -96
| -76
| -28
| -21
|----
|0.99
| -84
| -69
| -17
| -13
|----
|}

==See also==

{{Farmed salmon assessment}}

==References==

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