Health effects of Baltic herring and salmon: a benefit-risk assessment

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Health effects of Baltic herring and salmon: a benefit-risk assessment is a research manuscript about the Goherr assessment performed on the BONUS GOHERR project between 2015-2018. The manuscript is to be submitted to BMC Public Health [2].

Title page

  • Title: Health effects of Baltic herring and salmon: a benefit-risk assessment
  • Authors:
    Jouni T. Tuomisto, jouni.tuomisto[]thl.fi, (corresponding author), National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland.
    Arja Asikainen, arja.asikainen[]thl.fi, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland.
    Päivi Meriläinen, paivi.merilainen@thl.fi, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland.
    Päivi Haapasaari, paivi.haapasaari[]helsinki.fi, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Keywords

Fish consumption, dioxins, methylmercury, benefit-risk assessment, health impact, sperm concentration, tooth defect, intelligence quotient, knowledge crystal, food recommendation.

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An online survey was performed to adult consumers in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, and Sweden by Taloustutkimus Ltd. We asked about fish eating habits but not about health or other sensitive issues. We did not ask or collect identity information of the respondents, except age, gender, and country, which were used for classification in analyses. The survey did not involve any interventions. Due to these reasons, there was no need for ethical approval according to the THL guidance.

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Availability of data and materials

The whole benefit-risk assessment was performed online at http://en.opasnet.org/w/Goherr_assessment, and all details (including data, code, results, descriptions, and discussions) are openly available, except for the personal data from the consumer survey. The consumer survey data was converted to and published as synthetic data, i.e. data that does not represent any real individuals but that has similar statistical properties as the actual data.

The datasets generated and analysed during the current study, together with the other material mentioned above, are available in the IDA research data repository, [###PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS]

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Funding

This work resulted from the BONUS GOHERR project (Integrated governance of Baltic herring and salmon stocks involving stakeholders, 2015-2018) that was supported by BONUS (Art 185), funded jointly by the EU, the Academy of Finland and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.

Authors' contributions

JT planned the assessment design, performed most of the analyses, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript based on input from other authors. PH coordinated the project and participated in designing and linking of this work to other parts of the project. AA designed and performed the questionnaire study. PM participated in the discussions about the design and interpretation of results. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Acknowledgements

We thank all BONUS GOHERR researchers and stakeholder meeting participants, who participated in lively discussions about the importance of Baltic fisheries management and health.

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