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Evaluation of contaminants in meat and blubber of minke whales

Whale blubber is contaminated with various halogen-organic contaminants. The most conservative guidance value for tolerable intake of PCB is exceeded by consumption of only 0,05 g of the highest contaminated blubber. Even the least conservative value is exceeded by consumption of only 16 g of the blubber of the highest contamination level. Food limit values for PCB are exceeded up to 90 times.

Ellingsen factory, biggest whale meat and blubber storage in Norway.

Whale meat showed for sale in window shop.

Ellingsen factory, biggest whale meat and blubber storage in Norway. Svolvaer, Skrona, Norway.

Worker cuts organs and meat from a minke whale.

A worker at the Ferskar Kjotvorur processing factory in Reykjavik displays packaged Minke whale meat from the new season of whaling. This is the first Minke to be sold legally since the ban on commercial whaling in Iceland in 1989.

Ronald McDonald was forcibly removed by management at the Queen Street McDonald's after resigning as the company mascot, over GE feed used in McDonalds meat products.

Whale meat tins from Tesco's Japanese stores

Environmentalists call on government to ban trade in whale meat

The Korean Federation for Environment Movement (KFEM) called on the Korean government today to ban the nation’s lucrative trade in whale meat.

Exposed - Korea's plans for new whale meat factory

Ulsan, host city of this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting, is enthusiastically building a whale museum and a brand new marine park in anticipation. But we have uncovered plans, noticeably absent from the Ulsan council's bright and cheery website, that include a whale meat factory and whale burial ground. Is this the "city for whales", as they like to say, or the "city for whaling"?