[CPEO-MEF] Kansas issues perchlorate fish advisory

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kansas Issues New Fish Consumption Advisories
Updated Guidelines include Mercury, PCBs, Perchlorate

Kansas City infoZine
January 10, 2006

Topeka, Kan. - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)
and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) are issuing fish
consumption advisories for 2006. This is an annual process. Fish
consumption advisories are simply guidelines for the public to make
informed choices about their health and diet. The advisories identify
species of fish that should be eaten in limited quantities, or in some
cases, avoided altogether because of contamination found in tested fish.

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Kansas recommends not eating specified fish or aquatic life from the
following locations for the reasons stated:

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2.	Horseshoe Lake located in units 22 and 23 of the Mined Lands Wildlife
Area (Cherokee County) for all forms of aquatic life in addition to all
fish because of perchlorate levels; 

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http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/12302/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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